Open Standards
One of the hot topics in IT right now is open standards, using technology
that doesn't lock you down to a particular vendor. This is different than
open source, giving your actual code away to anyone that wants it. For
example, Microsoft Word 2003 isn't open source; Microsoft protects the
source code used to compile Word from anyone other than themselves.
However, Word 2003 does support saving documents as well-formed XML files,
marked-up text that is easily portable to any other platform or device.
So I started wondering, why hasn't anyone done this on PDAs? How hard would
it be to create an office suite that uses xHTML? An ebook reader that uses
Open Reader?
We've got portable devices, so how about some portable formats?
that doesn't lock you down to a particular vendor. This is different than
open source, giving your actual code away to anyone that wants it. For
example, Microsoft Word 2003 isn't open source; Microsoft protects the
source code used to compile Word from anyone other than themselves.
However, Word 2003 does support saving documents as well-formed XML files,
marked-up text that is easily portable to any other platform or device.
So I started wondering, why hasn't anyone done this on PDAs? How hard would
it be to create an office suite that uses xHTML? An ebook reader that uses
Open Reader?
We've got portable devices, so how about some portable formats?
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