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Originally Posted by jbcohen
To what extent can apple software make use of indistry standard formats such as epub, TCP/IP, DOC and HTML?
I understand that apple software does not work well with Shockwave, which seems to be industry standard.
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epub: There are a number of programs that run on Apple hardware that will display, edit, convert epub files.
TCP/IP isn't file format, but rather it's a network protocol. Apple supports it just fine, as far as I know. Any computer I've used in the last 5 years or so, Mac or Windows, handles networking fairly well behind the scenes.
Doc is specific to Microsoft Office, which has a Mac and a Windows version. .doc files can be opened and edited by either version. The only place it gets tricky is with the newest version of Office, which introduces a new file format that can't be read by older versions of Office, whether those older versions are on a Mac or a Windows machine.
HTML files are read by your browser, and almost all the main browsers that you would find on a Windows machine has a Mac version as well.
Shockwave is, I believe, part of Flash. Apple's mobile devices don't support Flash, but plugins are available for their desktop browsers, just like they are for Windows. There are some people who feel that the Flash plugins that Adobe offers for Apple computers don't work as well as the Windows versions. I don't know if there have been actual tests to show that, but I have no problem visiting Flash sites on my desktop.