On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:35:30 +0100, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:

>Il 26/03/2011 20:09, Jonathan Hudson ha scritto:
>> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:36:39 +0000 (UTC), Peter Jentsch 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
>>
>> Sounds like a very reasonable proposal due to the fact that 2003 ML is
>> rarely used.
>>
>> Your biggest problem will be the number of users who don't understand
>> what ML is, and object on spurious grounds. Perhaps you should have
>> just asked on the dev list.
>>
>> -jh
>>
>>
>rarely??? I think is the most used in the world!!!

Please show me some URIs then (NOT .xls, but 2003 ML)

-jh

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