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____/ JeffM on Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 01:02 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>Related:
>>|From: Bill Gates
>>|December 05, 1998
>>|
>>| -- allowing Office documents to be rendered very well
>>|by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of
>>|the most destructive things we could do to the company.
>
> Talk about cluless about what the 'Net is.
> Was there ever a browser
> that made the slightest effort to render M$ formats?
>
> ...and as to M$Word's "Save as HTML",
> have you ever tried to **validate** that "HTML"?[1]
> M$ had *already* achieved their goal--without lifting a finger.
> .
> .
> [1] Try this sometime:
> Take a page that passes the W3C Validator
> and, without changing anything, do a Save.
> Now run that page thru the Validator again.
>
> Of course, if you do this with OOo, you'll be disappointed too.
WYSIWYG is hard to make look good or validate because it's too amorphous. LaTeX
would do the job better. It's constrained and powerful.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Viruses to Linux are like cancer to a shark
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