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It easy to say that, but the practical realities are different. This explains it better than what I can write: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.
by recoiledsnake 16y ago
It easy to say that, but the practical realities are different.
This explains it better than what I can write:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
- polynomial 16y agoI like how Joel explains the necessary reasons why the file formats in question have to be so bad, while tacitly admitting that having a good reason for being bad doesn't make bad code any more useful.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoThe takeaway for me is that designing, developing and maintaining a full featured office suite is incredibly hard. And standardizing it is even harder. Look at all the teething problems that ODF had. OO.org/LibreOffice doesn't even conform fully to the ODF standard. See issues like http://www.zdnetasia.com/ooxml-expert-odf-standard-is-broken-62040931.htm http://www.zdnetasia.com/ooxml-expert-odf-standard-is-broken...