[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Niklas Nisbeth]

Yes, yes, yes, yes... This we must have. Be API is perfect for this 
kind of thing, I reckon. The problem is you need to standardise the 
data in some ways. I think.

I think the problem is that OLE is only *used* by MS Office, maybe cos 
the documentation is wank or maybe it's just a pain to use.

> 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:
> >
> >
> > On 5 Jan 2007, at 18:45 PM, Ari Haviv wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure they already did... and called it Object Linking 
> > and
> > Embedding (OLE). ;-)
> >
> > - Gavin
> >