Tag Archives: SVG

#1. Contradicting Microsoft Office Open XML

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Microsoft and ECMA are now running the Microsoft Office Open XML specification through the ISO process and the first thing up is the contradiction period. This is the time when objections to the specification can be presented and then resolved, … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-08

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Bob Sutor

The Continuing Open XML Debacle + Some DRM Shebanation: Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft Must read. I’m stunned, literally. These numbers are amazing. (tags: odf microsoft) PlexNex: Rob Weir on Song “IBM’s Weir has cranked the … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-07

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

HTML, SVG, and MathML The Beginning of the End | Musings “Sam Ruby has been busy. He�s been lobbying for changes in the HTML5 Specification which will, ultimately, enable embedding of MathML and SVG in HTML5 documents.” (tags: mathml svg … Continue reading →

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ODF project: Online presentations via SVG

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Here’s an idea for an open source project: take an arbitrary ODF file containing a presentation and translate it into a series of linked HTML pages containing SVG for all or most of the graphics and text. That is, I … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-10-16

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Bob Sutor

CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock – New York Times (tags: music) Ext2 IFS For Windows “It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This … Continue reading →

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Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I have been accused in the past of using a “weight” argument against the Open XML specification because it is several thousand pages long. While some people may think that is cute or funny, it is a real concern and … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 6

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Before we go too much further, I want to show you a little bit of XML processing in Python. As we saw in Part 5, we can open up the content.xml component of our ODF file and retrieve the document. … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 5

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Bob Sutor

It’s been several weeks since I last wrote in this series of entries examining what is in an OpenDocument Format file via some Python programming. In that last entry, I examined what was in the manifest file in the ODF … Continue reading →

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Rob Weir: How ECMA MOO-XML is bringing back dead Microsoft specs and skipping open standards

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Rob Weir’s latest blog entry “Cum mortuis in lingua mortua” delves into VML, an old Microsoft spec that went out of fashion and acceptance years ago, and SVG, a W3C spec that has been a standard for 5 years. Would … Continue reading →

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