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Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:08 PM

Harmonization: Finding the Differences

There have been some discussions over the past several years about the harmonization of Open XML with ODF. In reality the world of formats is clearly much broader than just ODF and Open XML, but given the political climate the focus lately has been specifically
Posted by BrianJones | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:55 PM

No more anonymous comments?

Lately I've been wondering if the discussions in the comments portion of my blog would be more productive if everyone involved identified who they were, and also make it clear if they represented a company. I know a lot of people have appreciated that
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:29 AM

Links for 1-31-08

A few interesting links I wanted to point out: Content Reuse with Open XML and XSLT – Alexander Falk (Altova's CEO) has a great post giving examples of how to work with Open XML files using XML Spy: "This is the first article in a series of blog postings
Posted by BrianJones | 17 Comments
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:00 PM

Buzzword now supports reading and writing Open XML

We had all the noise last week about IBM supporting Open XML in a number of their products. Today I learned that Adobe's Buzzword, a web based wordprocessor, now supports reading and writing .docx files. Very cool: http://forum.buzzword.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=980
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:34 PM

OASIS ODF committee considering joining DIN to help with translation and interop

This is very cool. It looks like the OASIS committee is looking at coming on board to help out with the work going on in DIN to help understand the translation between Open XML and ODF: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200801/msg00040.html This
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Friday, January 25, 2008 4:57 PM

Links for 1-25-08

A few interesting and entertaining links to end the week: IBM's Stance Against OpenXML Is Increasingly Confusing – Oliver Bell has a great post where he drills into the history the FUD approach. He also points out how easy it is for a large organization
Posted by BrianJones | 9 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 9:34 AM

Translating OpenXML into DAISY

Reed announced today that the first alpha build of the OpenXML to DAISY translator is now available up on SourceForge: http://blogs.technet.com/reedblog/archive/2008/01/25/open-xml-to-daisy-v1-is-live.aspx This is awesome. It's another example of the
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:02 PM

Improvements in Password Hashing

There were a number of comments raised by national bodies about the password hashing (encryption) support defined in Open XML. There were some extra hurdles that we had initially put to ensure that we could upgrade an existing binary documents properly.
Posted by BrianJones | 12 Comments
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:38 PM

Links 1-23-08

A few interesting links out there today: A Closer Look At Those "Single Standard" Policy Mandates – Great post from Oliver Bell, as he provides a look at the actual facts in terms of Policy Mandates around file formats. Altova's Alexander Falk Discusses
Posted by BrianJones | 16 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:54 AM

Reuse of existing standards

In looking through some of the work Ecma has done to identify in a clear way how existing standards are leveraged, I found the blog post from Jesper Lund Stocholm about the use of SVG within ODF to be very interesting. This is an example of how difficult
Posted by BrianJones | 24 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 12:57 PM

suppressTopSpacingWP – Compat Settings #1

I know a lot of people were worried about a subset of the compatibility settings in wordprocessingML that specified the behavior of an older application should be used (such as "suppressTopSpacingWP"). While the vast majority of the settings were fully
Posted by BrianJones | 25 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 10:22 AM

Add new functionality now or later?

One thing we had to think about in TC45 when dealing with the national body comments was how to deal with requests for additional features or functionality. It's important to make sure at this stage to only fix issues in existing functionalities and that
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:26 PM

Google support for Open XML formats

I noticed this last week but forgot to blog about it. If you do a google search and the result is an Open XML file (.docx; .xlsx; .pptx) they give you the ability to view them in the browser using their own rendering technology. They support all three
Posted by BrianJones | 19 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:30 PM

More info on DAISY and OpenXML

Very cool video with the DAISY Consortium's Secretary General George Kerscher discussing DAISY and the project for converting Open XML into DAISY: http://blogs.inquirer.net/techaddicts/2008/01/17/ivdo-daisy-makes-reading-documents-easier-for-the-blind/
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:12 PM

"yip-yip-yahoo" (2)

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:18 PM

Mapping documents in the binary format (.doc; .xls; .ppt) to the Open XML format

I wanted to call everyone's attention to a few interesting developments in Ecma's proposed disposition document related to the Office binary formats. There were a few comments from national bodies that asked about the documentation of the Office binary
Posted by BrianJones | 93 Comments
Monday, January 14, 2008 7:19 AM

Responses now complete for all 3,522 comments

Yesterday night Ecma TC45 and the Editor of DIS 29500 were able to publish the final drop of our responses to the 3,522 national body comments. The Ecma status report just went live today, and you can access it here: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/Proposed%20dispositions%20for%20National%20Body%20comments%20on%20DIS%2029500%20complete.htm
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:12 PM

"yip-yip-yahoo"!

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