- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:40:32 -0400
- To: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Mike Schinkel wrote: > Håkon Wium Lie wrote: >> Supporting (office formats), in all its versions, is prohibitively expensive for anyone but Microsoft. >> > Sorry, although I do support the desire to have formats document, the > statement is patently false. Here are just a few examples: > > * http://officewriter.softartisans.com/ > * http://www.textcontrol.com/ > * http://www.officeocx.com/ > * http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Total/ Judging by the following URL, I suspect their implementations are not nearly as complete or accurate as required for a full-featured office suite. http://www.aspose.com/COMMUNITY/blogs/post.aspx?App=roman.korchagin&y=2004&m=12&d=17&PostID=31719 OfficeWriter in particular doesn't appear to read Office files at all. It simply writes to them. I suspect if I hunted long enough, I'd find problems with ASPOSE and Office OCX as well. The complete lack of reviews on these products is disturbing.
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