A few weeks ago I wrote about Microsoft's "browser choice" ballot page in Europe, which in its debut used a flawed algorithm when attempting to perform a "random shuffle" of the browser choices, a feature specifically called for in their agreement … [Continue reading] about Yet Another Browser Choice Fail
Group:OpenDocument/Reject - LibrePlanet "Can you please resend your attachment in OpenDocument format? I refuse to accept Microsoft Word documents or Microsoft Excel documents, because using proprietary formats is bad for freedom and bad for the … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #6
ODFDOM is an open source (Apache 2.0) Java library for reading, writing and modifying ODF documents. It runs standalone, not requiring OpenOffice.org or any other editor to be installed. It operates directly on the ODF document itself. One of … [Continue reading] about ODF Performance Tip #1: Don’t re-compress images
Making the Grade With the Open Document Format "HOSEF conducts a monthly ‘Open Source Pizza’ so that people can learn more about what is happening with Free and Open Source Software. Thіѕ presentation is about the adoption of the Open Document … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #5
We'll be hitting a significant date next month. It was on May 1st, 2005 that Open Document Format (ODF) 1.0 was approved by OASIS. I hope we can all take time to reflect on far we've gone, with the specification itself, with the quality and … [Continue reading] about Fifth Anniversary of ODF is May 1st