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On 26 April 2011 22:48, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:

I think this is a very interesting issue. We are moving from the dominant
technologies that were designed to put information on paper to the
dominant
need of presenting information on screens. With the revolution in digital
readers this is only going to increase and then what relevance has
document
formats that are primarily designed to target hard copy output? If odf
does
not adapt it will become obsolete.


Seems to suggest that LO should become some sort of html (or any other
electronic format) editor?


Its already a sort of XML editor :-)



I am constantly irritated by having to download pdfs, .docs and so on when
all I want to do is view the information without cluttering up my download

 May I suggest to use the 'load url' bar to read documents directly on
the web? As for pdf documents, evince can open directly from the url
when activated via the command terminal


There are a number of reasons why this is clumsy. Ok, its a work around but
its not an elegant solution. Most people produce most of these documents
simply because they are locked into a desktop applications mentality and
don't think about what the purpose of the document really is. This isn't
going to change over night but we are clearly in a transition from desktop
being king to at least desktop a lot less important. IMHO, LO needs to be
looking several years ahead because we know how long development can take.
.


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