Open Standards

Taking Control of Your Documents

March 24, 2009

How to free yourself from Microsoft Office dependency in three easy steps The Objective When you save a document in your word processor, your work is encoded in a particular file format. You often have a choice of formats that you can use, with names like DOC, DOCX, RTF, WPD or ODT. Your choice of [...]

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VML and OOXML: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua

July 24, 2006

In this post, I will look at the history of Vector Markup Language (VML), how it lost out to the W3C’s SVG back in the 1990′s, but has come back from the dead, showing up in the draft Ecma Office Open XML (OOXML) specification. I offer some opinions on why this is a bad thing. [...]

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