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

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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* [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
* Phillip Kelchen
* Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:51 PM
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* Subject: Re: [MLUG] What do you think of MS ODF support?
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* 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!
* 

Now if we could only do something about spelling and grammar to make
those documents readable (had to deal with a M$ Word mangled document
earlier from someone)...

Diana 
 
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