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Re: Word better at ODF than KOffice!

In article <R9imk.5564$kh2.638@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So much for Roy's FUD that it is impossible for anyone to implement 
> > OOXML.  OpenOffice and Pages both have done a better job of implementing 
> > OOXML than anyone outside of OpenOffice and Sun has done at implementing 
> > ODF.
> 
> Uh, doesn't what you posted actually /support/ (if only a little bit)
> what Roy said?

How so?  OpenOffice and Apple have both implemented OOXML with only a 
small number of problems, similar to the level of problems Sun and 
Microsoft have had implementing ODF, and much lower than the level of 
problems that other ODF implementations have had.  How does that support 
Roy's claim that nobody (not even Microsoft) can implement OOXML?

What the results mostly seem to indicate is that Sun/OpenOffice, 
Microsoft, and to a slightly lessor extent Apple, are good at 
implementing document formats.  Doesn't matter if it is ODF or 
OOXML--they can implement it, and do a good job.  Others seem to have 
trouble.


> 
> "TextEdit"????

TextEdit is a simple editor on Macs.  It is not meant to be a word 
processor.  Before Leopard, it supported plain text and RTF.  They added 
ODF and OOXML support, but since TextEdit is a subset of even a basic 
word processor, obviously it is going to score fairly low on a test of 
dealing with word processing documents.


-- 
--Tim Smith

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