Yes it could however also there are many pitfalls that involve having
better compatibility with MS, starting that the file format in MSO is a
mess.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
Specially the part where it talks about compatibility/interoperability.
"If you’re creating a competitive word processor that has to load Word
documents, it may only take you a minute to write the code to load that
bit from the file format, but it might take you weeks to change your page
layout algorithm to accommodate it. If you don’t, customers will open
their Word files in your clone and all the pages will be messed up."
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:38:22 -0600, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello,
now that microsoft has partially opened the documentation of the .doc
format, is there a chance that better doc compatibility will become a
primary objective ?
Thanks
Andreas
A frustrated IT director that got the order to reinstall word 2000
because of not so good .doc compatibility
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