We should avoid that the proposed standard be, in many ways, platform dependent.
Some behaviors may only be
available on the Windows platform,
and not on Mac, Linux, Unix and
others.
.
It should be guaranteed that there
are no Windows-only features in the proposed standard.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment PT-0118 (Modified: 2008-01-04) Agreed; the proposed standard should be platform independent. The development of this standard was within the scope of and subject to the rules of Ecma International. Membership on this committee included producers, vendors, consumers, users and regulators. The standardization of Office Open XML in Ecma was performed by a very motivated team of experts in TC 45, which included representatives from Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba and the Unites States Library of Congress. While Microsoft made a significant contribution to the development of ECMA-376, it is important to note that the initial draft received considerable contributions through the work of Ecma TC 45 and as a result grew from approximately 2,000 to 6,000 pages, which constitutes the current DIS 29500. As empirical evidence of the standard’s platform independence, we note that a growing number of implementations of ECMA-376 are becoming available, including those released by Apple (Mac OS X Leopard, iWork 08, iPhone), Adobe (InDesign), Microsoft (Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 2008 Mac OS X), Novell (Suse Open Office) , Google (Search / Preview), Mindjet (MindManager), Intergen, OpenXML/ODF Translator (Open Source project on Sourceforge), Dataviz (DocumentsToGo on Palm OS, MacLinkPlus on Mac OS X Leopard), NeoOffice, Altova (XMLSpy), MarkLogic (XML Content Server), Datawatch (Monarch Pro), QuickOffice (QuickOffice Premier 5.0 on Symbian), Altsoft (XML2PDF Server 2007) and those under development by Corel (WordPerfect), AbiWord, Gnome (GNumeric), Xandros, Linspire, Turbolinux and others. These implementations are now available on many platforms, including Linux, the Macintosh, Windows, and handheld devices (PalmOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile).
