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Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin | |
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| Time: 12:33 EST/17:33 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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IE's shortcomings won't hold back the Internet for much longer, however, because Mozilla plans to drag IE into the next generation of open web technologies without Microsoft's help. One of the first steps towards achieving this goal is a new experimental plugin that adapts Mozilla's implementation of the HTML5 Canvas element so that it can be used in Internet Explorer. |
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Tuesday, August 19, 2008 02:29:22 PM |
| Ah well, if MS can't be bothered getting around to keeping up with standards (other than ISO 29500 -- oh wait, they don't do that one very well either), Mozilla will do it for them. |
| #2 By 92283 (142.32.208.234) at Tuesday, August 19, 2008 04:20:49 PM |
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ISO 29500 hasn't been published yet ... so why would Microsoft have a product for it?
The ISO standard had many changes from the OpenXML standard Microsoft submitted ... proving the process works. I look forward to OpenXML. It is so much better than ODF. |
| #3 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at Tuesday, August 19, 2008 05:44:53 PM |
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It's Microsoft's product; they own it, they can do what they want with it.
It would the same as Lamborghini releasing an engine upgrade for a Honda Civic!! hmm, that's not a bad idea LOL! I agree that OpenXML is a better than ODF... especially as it covers more than "just word processing documents" |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:19:10 AM |
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#2: Because the ISO Fast Track is for standards that are mature and already implemented -- it's a way of formally setting a standard that is already being used consistently. Since MS insisted on stacking committees & bribing partners to get Fast Track approval, I'm naturally assuming that OOXML is a mature standard with at least one implementation. Wait, it isn't? You mean that MS cheated its way into making its XML format a standard, but not even MS itself implements it? Wow. That's pretty underhanded.
#3: How can OOXML be better than anything when nobody can implement it? Not even MS. |
| #5 By 88850 (221.128.202.158) at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:40:07 AM |
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"ISO Fast Track is for standards that are mature and already implemented."
Not necessarily IMHO. Few know that ODF was also fast-tracked and it wasn't widely implemented by any means then. |
| #6 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:47:30 AM |
| #5: The ODF fast track took 3 years, IIRC, and ODF was already being supported by several document applications. There is a difference between 'implemented' and 'widely implemented'. |
| #7 By 92283 (70.66.78.103) at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 03:42:27 PM |
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#6 "3 years"
Another lie. 5 and a half months. "OASIS submitted the ODF specification to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) on November 16, 2005, under Publicly Available Specification (PAS) rules. After a six-month review period, on May 3, 2006 OpenDocument unanimously passed its six-month DIS ballot in JTC1, with broad participation,[5] after which the OpenDocument specification was "approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard" under the name ISO/IEC 26300:2006." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument |
