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1. Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 00:35:13 UTC Simon Phipps

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   ODF vs OOXML is not the only example.

   In 1998, following the submission of VML and PGML (both vector graphics formats using XML) to W3C, a new standards working group was created, SVG, to take the best of both for the Web. Microsoft decided not to join largely because SVG used so much PGML & promoted VML in its products, implementing it in Internet Explorer and Office so SVG would suffocate and die.

   24 years later, Microsoft has deprecated VML and fully implemented SVG.

   #BlueSky #ActivityPub

   • Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 00:35:37 UTC Simon Phipps

     When we created ODF 20+ years ago, Microsoft first laughed at the committee at OASIS, then made OOXML to render it moot, then rigged ISO to make OOXML a standard, then implemented ODF and now participates in the ODF committee and helps fund its work through COSM.

     #Bluesky is Twitter's OOXML to #ActivityPub and it's at the "rigging ISO" stage.

     Victorhck repeated this.