Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion.
You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically wrong decision. Cheers! Jaime On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 16:36, Peter Jentsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently investigating a bug with the Excel 2003 import filter > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35543). Looking closer at > the filter and how much work needed to be done to improve it, and > considering the fact that Office 2003 ML has been superseeded by OOXML, > fixing that bug feels like flogging a dead horse. > > I'd rather suggest to drop Office 2003 support in LibO altogether and > instead focus on improving OOXML and HTML import/export. > > For anybody with a large library of Office 2003 XML documents not wanting > to upgrade to MS Office 2007/2010, Microsoft offers a compatibility pack > that allows to open and save OOXML from MS Office 2003. > > What do you think? > > Peter > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
