Re: [MLUG] What do you think of MS ODF support?

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 13:45, Michael wrote:
> It all depends on proper specifications with no room for multiple
> interpretations and strict tests provided to prove compatibility. HTML
> for example was designed to be a lose 'easy' text formatting format
> which has led to many problems as different browsers and developers can
> claim to be compatible even while doing things differently.
>
> M$ Office isn't a standard because it's never been well defined and it
> keeps changing. The Open Document formats shouldn't have those problems.

Well, that sounds good- hopefully the translator won't lose any formatting in 
the process, intentionally or not (I don't know it MSFT will decide to make 
Office XML a moving target, but the BSD license on the converter would make 
sure that it at least  would be able to fully and properly read ODF files.) 
It would be wonderful to never have to even think about misformatted 
documents again!

Phillip

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