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It seems like a solution in search of a problem? How often do you need to embed a spreadsheet in word-processing document? Furthermore, making components from
by goto11 5y ago
It seems like a solution in search of a problem? How often do you need to embed a spreadsheet in word-processing document?
Furthermore, making components from multiple independent vendors interact seamlessly is just an incredibly complex problem. The web is probably the most successful decentralized system, and this is because the common integration point which all must support is very very simple: URL's and links.
- bombcar 5y agoThe web has mostly removed the need - but pre-web the ability to have embedded objects in documents was powerful, if tricky to implement correctly.