Leopard Does ODF
Awhile back I’d noted that Apple was adding ODF support to Leopard, but that it remained to be seen how good the support was. Well, at least one early report seems to suggest … pretty damn good. They do import/export (though still unclear how well), and it’s integrated into Cocoa and the new QuickLook previewer. So despite my general dislike of Apple’s incoherent stance on standards, here’s one place where they’re doing the right thing. Kudos to Apple, then.
If I had a suggestion for Apple for the future, I’d look into a way to bridge the new enhanced metadata support in ODF 1.2 with their CoreData framework. That way, Mac developers could easily embed richer intelligence into their documents using a W3C standard extensible metadata framework.
