{"id":1854,"date":"2006-09-24T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-09-24T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:11:48","slug":"openofficeorg-to-get-extension-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/openofficeorg-to-get-extension-capabilities.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org to get extension capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice.org<\/a>, the open source office suite that gives Microsoft Office a run for it&#8217;s money (no pun intended), will soon be able to have its features expanded by the use of Extensions.<\/p>\n<p>Extensions are small, add-on programs created by developers to add functionality to a particular program.  The best known use of this is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a> browser, of which I am a regular user.<\/p>\n<p>The extensions I use with that program are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groowe.com\/\">Groowe toolbar<\/a> (think Google toolbar, then add a dozen or more additional sites to search) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/mgueury\/mozilla\/\">HTML Validator toolbar<\/a>, which has been extremely valuable in my web design projects.  There are hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>No word as to what types of extensions might become available, but I am sure that it will change the way people approach the program.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/osdir.com\/Article9372.phtml\">OSDir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite that gives Microsoft Office a run for it&#8217;s money (no pun intended), will soon be able to have its features expanded by the use of Extensions. Extensions are small, add-on programs created by developers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/openofficeorg-to-get-extension-capabilities.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2982,2966,2977],"tags":[5350,3010,3121,3135],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-software","category-web-design","tag-google","tag-html","tag-microsoft","tag-web-design-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-tU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}