On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is interesting that Office 2007 does not implement the ISO standard
> OOXML.
Microsoft promises standards compliance, fails to deliver. Film at
11. And again tomorrow. And next week. And next month. And neat
year
It is interesting that Office 2007 does not implement the ISO standard
OOXML.
Michael Pelletier wrote:
I would think that this would be better news than trying to play catch-up
with undocumented features, bugs, conversion problems, and
forward-incompatability in Microsoft document formats every
On Aug 18, 2008, at 11:20, Michael Pelletier wrote:
> With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an
> editor
> that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with
> no pesky
> compatability or rendering quirks, right?
http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2
Chris wrote:
> http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/15/ap5329380.html
>
I don't really think it's bad news for the Open Document Format; ODF was
established first, it has several reference implementations, and it has
a rich community of third party apps and libraries that can read, write
and ma
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway, I would say that this isn't actually bad for ODF, just bad for
> everyone because Microsoft has been allowed to continue its shenanigans and
> in so doing, compromised a rather large standards organization.
You have a good point there, didn't think of it that way round, but
will M$ actually release their document format completely, they have
never been known to be open with any of their stuff.
Chris
On 8/18/08, Michael Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would think that this would be better n
On Monday 18 August 2008 11:20, Michael Pelletier wrote:
> With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an editor
> that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no
> pesky compatability or rendering quirks, right?
Should be possible, but it's not. The appe
I would think that this would be better news than trying to play catch-up
with undocumented features, bugs, conversion problems, and
forward-incompatability in Microsoft document formats every two years.
With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an editor
that is absolutely 10
