Straight from Word to Web without Office: Intergen

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 7th @ 12:49 PM

The Web is all about open formats like XML. When you combine open XML-based Office formats with a rich client technology like Silverlight, cool things are possible.

Tim Sneath sat down earlier this week with Chris Auld from Intergen, a New Zealand-based partner, to talk about TextGlow, a Silverlight-based viewer for Word documents built using the Open XML standard. This is a really interesting way to share documents on the Internet – there’s no need to install Office or convert the files to PDF format, since TextGlow can open and display the original document.

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Very useless. You can't dynamically zoom on docs. Or even use the scroll wheel to. So it's so hard to view some docs.

Nor can you use the arrow keys on a keyboard to flip between pages. Scribd iPaper does a far better job.

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