Standards might filter into the office

[K. Redington]

Just some food for thought.

It is great to see Apple and the Mac Browser community enforce and push 
the beauty of open standards for the end user and developer. Apple and 
others have stumbled onto the way to get open standards out there and 
creating true competition in the market. I have never heard so many 
people (end users) talk about open standards and easy application/OS 
integration until this year.  Technology foundations like Rendevous, 
WebCore, XML, etc. are going to really change the Mac market, who knows 
how it will start to change the PC market as a whole.

When OmniGroup integrates WebCore they will quickly narrow 
functionality differences with the rest of their market, yet retain and 
enhance what makes OW the best solution for many on this list. Look at 
the .rtf base used in some apps on OS X including the easy export of 
many of Omni's App docs to .rtf Just think at how quickly OS X is 
growing due to the open standards that the web and networks embrace, I 
personally think the productivity apps are finally going to start 
growing in content and usefulness for a change.

Thanks, OmniGroup I look forward to seeing how you shape our future 
"OmniWeb" and other Omni Apps.




Kevin Redington

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