OOXML and the ISO vote

well, looks like OOXML is approved:

 

slashdots linkage:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/04/01/2229207

 

and groklaws linkage:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080402003610230

 

 

When you read through those threads you'll notice allot of comments about how Microsoft must have cheated somehow.  and that OOXML is flawed, and

should have been rejected. my take is this;

 

maybe OOXML is not perfect, but neather is PDF or ODF.  hell the only really clean standard is probley HTML.  Microsoft has the disadvantage of having tons and tons of functionality

that must be supported. where as ODF did not. also, pdf is also pretty ugly. ever try to create a PDF based app? good luck in having it not break from adobe reader version to version and from the different broswer versions. and if we accepted PDF? why not OOXML? and one thing Miguel de Icaza has commented alot about OOXML both on his blog and in slashdot threads about OOXML.

 

and he and some of his team had been invloved during some of the early stages. Now remember Miguel and his team wrote Gnumeric and worked alot with the Microsoft formats. and they thought more documentation was better, and would help in the long run. so many of the 6000 pages are samples etc see the below links for a run down.

 

I for one think OOXML in the long run is a good thing.

 

here are some of Miguel de Icaza's posts: (about OOXML)

 

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-26.html

 

and a really good post about ODF and OOXML in general:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html

 

 

 

-Nex6