May 2009 - Posts

Tracked Changes
13 May 09 09:52 PM

When I blogged about the release of SP2 with ODF support two weeks ago, I mentioned that I was planning to blog about a few of the tough decisions we faced in our SP2 implementation of ODF, such as the decision not to support tracked changes. I’ve spent Read More...

Postedby dmahugh | 33 Comments    

1 + 2 = 1?
09 May 09 11:26 PM

Does 1 plus 2 equal 3? After last week’s sometimes acrimonious discussion about formulas in ODF, you may be glad to hear that IBM and Microsoft appear to agree on that answer to this simple question. But OpenOffice.org is not so certain – maybe the answer Read More...

Postedby dmahugh | 58 Comments    

ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
05 May 09 02:58 PM

Rob Weir posted on his blog a couple of days ago an Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability .  I think it’s great that he has brought up spreadsheet interoperability, and specifically the issue of formulas, which seems to be the main thrust of Read More...

Postedby dmahugh | 60 Comments    

Links for 05/04/2009
04 May 09 04:22 PM

PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 was released last week, as an open-source PHP API for generating PPTX files, much like the PHPExcel API for XLSX files.  Maarten Balliauw has a blog post with more information, download links, and sample code. A new post at OpenXMLDeveloper.org Read More...

Postedby dmahugh | 2 Comments