- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:57:55 -0400
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Matthew Raymond wrote: > 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. > I wasn't endorsing these products, I was merely pointing out that Håkon assertion that only Microsoft can afford to do parsing for Office documents was false. -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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