He is the Editor of ODF....so I imagine he thinks it is worthwhile.
Open Office Allows:
- We are interested in explicit semantics. But users just want to get things done.
- Interchange
- Application Independence
- Long term preservation of content
Lots of argument with his conclusions that everyone making their own XML is a good thing. My computer crashed (damn Windows) so I am behind on the conversation. Liam and Tommie had some great back-n-forth with Patrick.
ODF tags are presentational? Patrick says they aren't all presentational but isn't specific about it. Sounds like most of the tags are presentational...which is not how I recall XML being used to its full potential.
Wendell: "What you left out is that these formats are REALLY ugly."
This talk brought up a lot of discussion but I think it can be mostly narrowed down to:
- How does this help me as an XML developer?
- Microsoft Office is pervasive...it is going to be difficult to get through that?
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