Ian wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 14:58 -0400, Douglas St.Clair wrote:
Well let me see if I understand the problem in general. Microsoft has
had a policy of 'embrasse and extend' meaning they will adopt a
standard and then add to it in such a fashion as to make backwards
compatibility impossible if you employ any of their extensions. Sooo
what is broken. Has Microsoft failed to properly implement the
standard or has it 'extended' it?
ODF 1.2 does not define formulae so MS simply freeze the cell with the
last known result. That is not an extension simply a minimal application
of the standard. They could of course support the OOo formula format so
that if the file was exported and used in any other application using
the OOo formula format everything is preserved. But they will claim that
this is not part of the odf standards so they don't need to do it.
Until the next spec is finalised with the formulae format, and MS agree
to adopt it, there is a less than ideal situation but I think this was
foreseen some time ago.
Promote and provide the link to the sun plugin for ODF support. I don't
know of a way to put it so the MS shown to be out dated. Something like
the get the updated ODF plugin from Sun with the latest ODF 1.2 support
in contrast to Microsoft's support for only ODF 1.0.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/
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Robin Laing
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