"Why Browsers Should Be Able to Display OpenDocument"

[Trevor Harmon]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Tyzack wrote:

> Thoughts? Sounds like a potentially good idea to me.
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12685

I don't know why the author thinks formatting OpenDocument across  
browsers will be consistent. Browsers don't even display HTML  
consistently. The best solution is PDF. It solves the consistency  
problem, it's very mature, and it already has massive support from  
the industry, perhaps more than OpenDocument will ever have. And yet  
the author says PDF is inadequate because it requires a plugin; how  
can he expect OpenDocument to be supported? Let's get native support  
for PDF into our browsers before we worry about OpenDocument.

Trevor