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Separate viewing app? gimme a browser instead

Separate viewing app? gimme a browser instead

Posted Nov 24, 2005 16:44 UTC (Thu) by liw (subscriber, #6379)
Parent article: Open document formats and the path to world domination

A killer for ODF would be a CSS stylesheet that could be applied to most ODF files so that they could be viewed (legibly, if not prettily) in a normal browser, without plugins or anything.

It's XML, so should be doable, I think.


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Separate viewing app? gimme a browser instead

Posted Nov 24, 2005 17:42 UTC (Thu) by bseufert (subscriber, #4534) [Link]

There is a start of this... http://books.evc-cit.info/odf_utils/odt_to_xhtml.html
so definately doable.

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