- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:45:31 +0200
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Chris Wilson:
> >Exactly this has already
> >happened with Office document formats, it's a repeating pattern.
>
> Sorry, I'm not registering how you're using Office formats as an
> example. Office formats are now thoroughly documented, with an open
> standard describing them.
Office formats are far from being documented -- e.g., there is no
publically available specification for the "doc"-formats. Supporting
it, in all its versions, is prohibitively expensive for anyone but
Microsoft.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:45:30 UTC