On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Although MS stopped free support for MS Office 2003 some time ago, its use is still widespread. It would be a mistake for LibO to support the ill-defined, shifting OOXML and deprecate MS 2003 support. Carl > 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 *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
