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"Not assuming a literal interpretation of 100%" seems about as sensible as not assuming a literal interpretation of "the coin flip came up heads". Presumably i
by gloob 16y ago
"Not assuming a literal interpretation of 100%" seems about as sensible as not assuming a literal interpretation of "the coin flip came up heads". Presumably if the poster had meant 80% (or whatever number) they would have said that instead.
- ericb 16y ago"The coin flip came up heads" is provable. I'm not certain 100% compatibility with an MS product is provable. I don't expect an arbitrary precision like "98.3%" to convey wanting full compatibility because I understand statement's intent. To each their own though.
- rbanffy 16y ago> I'm not certain 100% compatibility with an MS product is provable. In order to be provable, you would require it to be properly defined. I don't think even Microsoft has an adequate definition of what an Office document should look when stored on disk.
- mdaniel 16y agoI believe the on-disk is pretty well defined nowadays by their open document promise. However, HTML is a published standard, too, yet every copy of IE renders in its own special way. I think that is a far better analogy of what is expected here.
- rbanffy 16y agoReading MS's Office Open XML is no trivial exercise without having code from previous versions of Office built into your own program. Not many companies can do it that way.