OLE question on IWORK 08

Question

Anybody heard of OLE??(object linking embedding).
What an oversight on Apple software team???? I take it everybody at Apple must be using excel and Microsoft word, to embed spreadsheets into their word documents?
Anyone else have the same problem??

Answer 1

I do not get that.
The model was to minimize applications by removing redundancy which is the opposite of the model for Object Linking and Embedding. At the same time the model was to maximize the quality of the transforms upon which the graphic user interface is judged, the colour-colourant transforms and the character-glyph transforms, and to make those transforms application-independent in order that small and easy-to-use applications would be able to take advantage of those transforms. Thus, OpenDoc went along with the graphics library of QuickDraw GX, with ColorSync 2, and with TrueType 2.
The model of small applications for small software developers, of removing redundancy, of application-independent transforms for the small software developer to take advantage of - that is still a useful model and a model that is likely to thrive as the software suite that sits on a standalone computer is replaced with other models for computing and other models for software development. I read the Wikipedia article on OpenDoc. I also read the Wikipedia article on GX. The latter was technically incorrect when I first read it, and a handful of technical corrections were incorporated.
Best,
Henrik