Today is Document Freedom Day. In the five years since Open Document Format (ODF) first was approved in OASIS we have certainly made progress, but there is still work remaining to be done. How will we know when we have arrived? At what point can we declare victory and say “Free at last”? I think […]
Archives for March 2010
Weekly Links #4
ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control of documents and their data, Part 1 “This article is the first in a three-part series and introduces the new Open Document Format (ODF) Document Object Model (DOM) for Java™ along with the ODF Toolkit Union open source community, whose mission is to simplify the programmatic manipulation of documents […]
Public review of “The State of ODF Interoperability”
The OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC has as a primary goal to: Initially and periodically thereafter, to review the current state of conformance and interoperability among a number of ODF implementations; To produce reports on overall trends in conformance and interoperability that note areas of accomplishment as well as areas needing improvement, and to […]
The New & Improved Microsoft Shuffle
A quick update on my post from last week on the “Microsoft Shuffle“, where I looked at how Microsoft’s “random” browser ballot was far from random. First, I’d like to thanks those who commented on that post, or sent me notes, offering additional analysis. I think we nailed this one. Within a few days of […]
National Grammar Day, Bah Humbug!
Evidently today is National Grammar Day. I am not a fan. Like most Americans of my generation I was taught to identify parts of speech, diagram sentences and intone with the rest of the class the mysteries of the three-and-twenty most holy helping verbs: “is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had, […]