On 2011-09-11, Anthony Papillion wrote: > From: [email protected] > >> MS don't implement their standard in the way that they wrote they >> would. Having set a standard anyone that follows that standard is >> guaranteed to produce things that are a little wonky when opened in >> MS Office. LO devs work at getting LO's implementation as wonky as >> MS's but the wonkiness is the unknown factor. > > Ok, I can accept that. But then, aren't we back to a 'secret format'? > If I implement a standard to write out a file a certain way and do it > in another way that isn't documented then I'm not following the > standard and, thus, my filetype is secret. The only way it's *not* > secret is if they file is written to the standard without any > deviations. > > At first, I thought 'ok, so this means MS has published a standard > that other vendors can write to and MS will has implemented that > standard (in addition to their secret one) so that MSO can always > properly read other vendor created MSO files". But that's not the > case. There are times, it seems, when LibO files are improperly > rendered in MSO. > > So, apparently, the 'standard' really doesn't mean anything because > that's not really what Microsoft is doing.
Yes, that's the issue. I don't know about the binary formats, but I've read that Microsoft does not actually *follow* OOXML. (This, if true, means, ironically, that there is no program with complete, 100%, OOXML support.) Maybe it was just a hoax, but I doubt it. After all, it's Microsoft. With Microsoft stardards, either someone steps forward and spends their time working out how to convert between MS formats and ODF, which will take a *lot* of time (and will not address the implementation deviations), or people flag issues and devs will address compatibility issue by issue. So, people with compatiblity issues, please report these issues. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
