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Opera CTO Hits Back at Microsoft's Standards Push

Posted by Zonk on from the going-to-make-the-nighly-news dept.

Michael writes "Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie hit back today at Microsoft's push to fast track Office Open XML into an ISO standard, in a blistering article on CNET. He also took a swipe at Open Document Format: 'I'm no fan of either specification. Both are basically memory dumps with angle brackets around them. If forced to choose one, I'd pick the 700-page specification (ODF) over the 6,000-page specification (OOXML). But I think there is a better way.' The better way being the existing universally understood standards of HTML and CSS. Putting this to the test, Håkon has published a book using HTML and CSS."

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  1. No, NO. by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OMG, Borat is teaming up with Steve Ballmer to spew out 6000 page docs

    Steve squirts them out, remember?

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  2. Re:Borat's here by User+956 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OMG, Borat is teaming up with Steve Ballmer to spew out 6000 page docs!! Run for cover!

    You should run for cover, because he's spewing chairs with those documents.

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  3. Re:Too true by le_lotus_604 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    aaahh Kernighan, Richie .. the black cover, always to remember !!! HTML, it stands for HyperText right !!

  4. Re:Is it mature enough? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, hubris of the troll. Congrats you're upset in public. What did that accomplish? People don't need folk like you to make up their minds about others. Or are you saying everyone on slashdot is stupid and needs your deep insight to figure out what's what?

    Give me a call when you grow up kid. Maybe you have a fighting chance at being a decent human being, but right now it's hard to tell.

    Tom

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