> Customers should be able to move their own data between independently developed software products. And they should be able to buy data libraries usable across many such products. The types of data objects to exchange are open-ended and include plain and formatted text, raster and structured graphics, fonts, music, sound effects, musical instrument descriptions, and animation ... The IFF philosophy: “A little behind-the-scenes conversion when programs read and write files is far better than N x M explicit conversion utilities for highly specialized formats”.
> Customers should be able to move their own data between independently developed software products. And they should be able to buy data libraries usable across many such products. The types of data objects to exchange are open-ended and include plain and formatted text, raster and structured graphics, fonts, music, sound effects, musical instrument descriptions, and animation ... The IFF philosophy: “A little behind-the-scenes conversion when programs read and write files is far better than N x M explicit conversion utilities for highly specialized formats”.