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''Note'': It should be noted that Google has already supported viewing SXW format (used by OpenOffice.org 1.x) as HTML through their search engine[http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001143.html] and G-Mail[http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30719&hl=en] already.
 
''Note'': It should be noted that Google has already supported viewing SXW format (used by OpenOffice.org 1.x) as HTML through their search engine[http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001143.html] and G-Mail[http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30719&hl=en] already.
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* [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12685 Why Browsers Should Be Able to Display OpenDocument]

Revision as of 05:50, 22 March 2006

A Mozilla Firefox extension has been proposed by a developer named Talin, according to Mozilla hacker Gervase Markham [1]; since then it has been further modified by Alex Hudson[2], and was hosted in the official Firefox extension repository[3].


Official page for the ODFReader extension:

Mozilla Firefox Extension Add-on page


Development resources

This plugin requires the use of an XSL file. Currently the author recommends using the XSLT provided by J David Eisenberg:

Also check out David's book OASIS OpenDocument Essentials


And for Firefox / XUL development, you can check out the book Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane:


Note: It should be noted that Google has already supported viewing SXW format (used by OpenOffice.org 1.x) as HTML through their search engine[4] and G-Mail[5] already.

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