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OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is being released today, is not the great leap forward in look and feel that version 2.0 represented, but it justifies its label as a major release with dozens of changes, some major, some minor, but in all more than can be easily summarized. A new start dialog, support for reading version 1.2 of the Open Document Format, limited support for importing Microsoft VBA macros, increased language support, easier use of multiple languages in the spell check, native support for Mac OS X, OOXML support -- these are just some of the across-the-board changes in version 3.0. However, the largest changes are specific to the major applications. Here's an overview of some of the most important changes. |
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Google's Android mobile phone software platform could push the mobile industry toward open standards if carriers and handset makers recognize the value of standardization, says a recent report by ABI Research. However, tough economic times mean uncertainty surrounds all business-related decisions. |
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Video and audio support will soon be built directly into Firefox, by way of the free Vorbis and Theora codecs, and Mozilla is using the opportunity to advance multimedia accessibility for hearing-impaired and seeing-impaired users. Although HTML 5 does not officially include Ogg Vorbis and Theora as baseline codecs for the new VIDEO and AUDIO tags, Mozilla has adopted them for its own implementation. Researcher Silvia Pfeiffer is leading a Mozilla Foundation-funded effort to integrate support for closed captioning and other multimedia accessibility features into the Ogg formats and their implementation in Firefox. Pfeiffer has worked on multimedia accessibility for more than 10 years, and is a long-standing member of the Xiph.org community. She set up a public mailing list about the video accessibility work, that along with a public wiki is designed to garner wider community involvement. Such involvement is critical, because the decisions made will need to prove acceptable to several groups: Mozilla, Xiph.org, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), and Opera Software, which will also deploy Ogg support for VIDEO and AUDIO in its browser. |
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