[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Ari Haviv]

Where did I get the idea that OLE was only for Microsoft Office? Maybe
because Office "owns" the file formats.
With the translator idea you could have several apps that can deal with the
same object and you would pick any one you want when you want to edit an
object in your document, instead of say "Excel" for xls.

On 1/5/07, Gavin James <gavin.james at runbox.com> wrote:
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> On 5 Jan 2007, at 18:45 PM, Ari Haviv wrote:
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> I really like that Linkback idea. Should be part of the OS so that more
> than a dozen or so apps will use it.
> Microsoft will never do such a thing because they want everyone to buy
> their entire friggin suite.
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> I'm pretty sure they already did... and called it Object Linking and
> Embedding (OLE). ;-)
>
> - Gavin
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