I thought it would be worth talking a little bit about how the ODF Viewer project is coming along.

This project, which has seen some mad hacking by me and Daniel earlier this week, has taken the original XSLT work done to extract text from content.xml, and extended it to handle styles and embedded images, amongst other things. While we're not yet close to getting an accurate rendition of documents, we're getting to the point where most documents are very readable.

This picture shows OpenOffice.org in the top-left, and ODF Viewer in the bottom right (SVN HEAD as of 19th July):

This doesn't show many of the advanced features of the viewer, like handling tables of contents, but does show you that we've already got a pretty good foundation for a viewer. We're going to keep working on this and over time it will get better and better.

The best news is that the XSLT is being developed at the same time as a separate project, and that the Firefox plugin is developed from the exact same code. As one improves, all the others improve.