On 18/02/2008, Ciaran O'Riordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DIS-29500: Deprecated before use? by Georg Greve > http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-idiosyncrasies.en.html > About OOXML's original purpose of preserving compatibility with an > idiosyncratic format, how the changes to the format now exclude that > compatibility, and how complexity and lack of a re-useable source code > reference implementation makes implementation impractical or impossible.
The reference to ECMA-234 is most apposite. I was surprised to find no Wikipedia article on ECMA-234. Does anyone think they have sufficient third-party references to hand to write one up? Particularly contemporary coverage of the bit where Microsoft promptly ignored ECMA-234 in Windows 95. If you don't want to do the writing, please send 'em my way. (My previous personal favourite article about Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Display How to write real-life comedy in encyclopedic format.) - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
