On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 02:06 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > It may well be that we are only a few months or weeks away from the last > "clean" version of OpenOffice.org's ODF support which is free of any > workarounds for Microsoft Office bugs with regard to ODF documents.
The MS Plug-in is an Open Source project so if they deliberately break it, it can be fixed and the fix can be given a lot of publicity. > I, > personally, don't think OOo should *ever* have *any* workarounds for > Microsoft's poor programming when it comes to ODF; we need every MSO > user to complain loud and long to Microsoft "this is a bug in your > software, not OOo, and you need to fix it", and we need every OOo user > that gets a broken ODF document generated by MSO to report back to that > MSO user "your software is making broken documents and needs to be > fixed". OOo is as close as we have to a reference ODF implementation and > to pollute its ODF support with MSO bug compatibility would be a > tragedy. Since ODF is an ISO standard any files generated can be validated against the standard. So I rather hope MS do break the standard with their ODF output. It would be the best way of generating worldwide publicity for the standard I could think of. > (Speaking of which, is there such a beast as an ODF validator at the > moment? If we don't have one now, I know we will need it very soon.) This has been discussed at the OpenDocument Fellowship and some initial work has been done. If we continue to get financial support, this is a project we would give some priority to. However, if a file was specifically suspected of having a problem it could be manually examined and I am sure those with the skills and knowledge will be waiting to check out anything that comes from MS's plug-in. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
