In reply to Andreas Nurbo.

it really forces theme authors to come together and form standards for how information should be stored to support interaoperability.

Good point. That would be a very positive outcome if such a thing actually does occur.

However I'm not optimistic because I've not seen much interest from the core team in establishing such standards. I pushed a lot for standards on wp-hackers and elsewhere in years past but I finally gave up on the effort seeing it as futile.

But maybe times have changed?