Apple and OpenDocument
I’d heard something about Apple supporting OpenDocument in their forthcoming version of Mac OS X, code-named Leopard, but chose not to say anything about until it’s been more widely reported. I guess a blog post counts.
It remains to be seen just how good and comprehensive Apple’s new ODF support is, and I really don’t know, but for sake of argument, let’s say:
- it’s quite good
- supports import/export
- is baked into Cocoa, and so available to any OS X application developer
- Apple productivity applications like Keynote and Pages use the support read and write the format
And let’s imagine further that they do something similar with the ECMA Open XML spec.
I doubt the real-world reality quite matches the above, but just imagine the impact.
Now, we just need to get Apple to add standard citation encoding to the text object too, and all of the sudden I have a compelling reason to be excited about Apple again.
