- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:57:42 +0200
- To: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Mike Schinkel:
> >>> 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
> 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.
How is my assertion false? Which of the above products you listed
above can parse and display all doc-files correctly?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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