Writely supporting OpenDocument
Writely announced today that has added support for ODF. Writely is an AJAX word processor, i.e. a program like Microsoft Word that you use through your web browser.
That means that there are now several different programs supporting ODF:
- OpenOffice / StarOffice
- KOffice
- Writely
Abiword and Textmaker can open ODF, and they’re both working on saving in the format.
January 5th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
[...] While the mainstream media has offered only relatively superficial coverage of the OpenDocument battle in Massachusetts, Brandon’s reporting has been far more extensive (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). And Brandon has not been afraid to take on the mainstream media when he believes their reporting to be misleading or erroneous. For example, he takes Boston Globe reporter Stephen Kurkjian to task for sloppy reporting that may have lead to the forced resignation of the Massachusetts CTO. But Brandon did this with the kind of grace and civility that Mena Trott and others have lamented as being absent from the blogosphere. In one of his chastisements of Kurkjian, Brandon is careful to temper his criticism with a compliment about Kurkjian’s previous Pulitzer Prize winning work at the Globe. If only some of the more vitriolic voices in the blogosphere could learn from Brandon’s tactfulness here. [...]