Firefox ODFReader extension

As the official size is off-line and there were no updates since 10-24-2006 it seems as if development of this extension has ceased. Therefore this page is only to serve for historical reasons.

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:

• http://www.alcoholicsunanimous.com/odfreader/

Mozilla Firefox Extension Add-on page

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1888

Development resources

ODT to XHTML XSLT

This ODFReader Firefox extension makes use of an XSL file. Currently the author recommends using the XSLT provided by J David Eisenberg:

• http://books.evc-cit.info/odf_utils/odt_to_xhtml.html

Also check out David's book OASIS OpenDocument Essentials

• http://books.evc-cit.info/

OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications

Here you can find the document of OASIS Open Document Format specification v1.0 (the whole specification is about 700 pages):

• http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office

Firefox extension development

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

• http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4600

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. See also Google Desktop Search's OpenDocument Indexer plugin.

Related topics

• Why Browsers Should Be Able to Display OpenDocument
• For further information on ODF filters and converters,
  please check out List of OpenDocument software from Wikipedia