David Wheeler, the chair of the OASIS ODF Formula Subcommittee has a good status update on our work defining the details of the expression language and supporting functions used in spreadsheet formulas. I'd also like to point out some cool work by … [Continue reading] about Follow the Leader
Throwing stones at people in glass houses
I work in a house with glass walls. Not literally, of course. The cost to air-condition such a house would be prohibitive. I mean that working on standard in OASIS is a public act, with process transparency and public visibility. The public doesn't … [Continue reading] about Throwing stones at people in glass houses
Add-in finitum
In this post, I will take another look at the Microsoft ODF Add-in debate, suggest some criteria for use in evaluating file format integration, and use those criteria to evaluate both Office 2007's support for the ODF formats, and OpenOffice's … [Continue reading] about Add-in finitum
VML and OOXML: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
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 … [Continue reading] about VML and OOXML: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
Site Updates
If I had know I was going to be Groklaw'ed, I would have spruced up the place first and prepared for company! Thanks to all for the overwhelming expression of interest in these topics.This blog is generated by Blogger, and published via ftp to my … [Continue reading] about Site Updates