Apparently the new Office file format will be an open XML standard.
Sounds good, but I’m not quite sure where it leaves the Open Document standard, which as I understand it is the same, only different.
Take two open, universal document standards into the shower?
I’m not sure how extensible either of these formats is, but if we can standardise on one of them, and if it allows some way to embed new content types into the document, then we might end up getting back to something like OpenDoc by the back door. Obviously OpenDoc was a lot more than a document format, but having a standard for that is certainly a good start…
Yes, I’ve become an audioscrobbler.
You can see what’s playing right now on the “now playing” section of this site (which is driven by some custom scripts that I wrote), but for a more complete list of what I’ve been playing recently, you can now visit my audioscrobbler page.
You’re ‘avin a laugh…
I wonder how many of these Ian Holloway has tried to sign for QPR…
Brent Simmons has been posting a number of articles recently on inconsistencies in the latest Tiger UI. Here’s an example.
He makes some good points.
I’m all for innovation, but I do think that Apple’s UI design has been getting more than a little flaky recently.
It’s not that it’s all bad, just that it seems to lack any kind of intellectual rigour. For every great new idea, there seem to be five inexplicable changes which make things less consistent, or harder to use.
I’d like to see some sort of internal review process within Apple which caught a lot of the inconsistencies a bit sooner (e.g. at the beta stage). I find it hard to believe that such a process doesn’t exist already, but if so then it’s clearly broken!
Took a photo of myself looking stupid with a pair of shades on…
Named it (with a certain amount of irony) “dude”.
The computer had other ideas though, and decided to miss out the “e”.
Oh dear.