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> text dump of what Microsoft did in binary than a standard meant for interoperability. Isn't it all XML based? > OpenOffice was already better at reading old
by arp242 3y ago
> text dump of what Microsoft did in binary than a standard meant for interoperability.
Isn't it all XML based?
> OpenOffice was already better at reading old doc files than Microsoft Word was well before OOXML was a thing.
It's been a long time, but that was certainly not my experience from what I recall; I had a lot of trouble with this. And writing files and then expecting Word users to be able to read them well was another source of problems.
And look, maybe ODT would have been better; but that ship has sailed, and OOXML seems free for all intents and purposes, even though perhaps it's not 100% ideal. This is just not something that's all that important today.
- ptx 3y ago> Isn't it all XML based? That doesn't help much when the XML format consists of elements like "footnoteLayoutLikeWW8" which "specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 6.x/95/97)" [1]. I think this kind of thing is what the parent comment was referring to. [1] https://www.consortiuminfo.org/opendocument-and-ooxml/the-contradictory-nature-of-ooxml/ https://www.consortiuminfo.org/opendocument-and-ooxml/the-co...
- arp242 3y agoAh, I didn't know that! It seems like they're only there for compatibility and not in new documents(?) Either way, it seems like fighting yesterday's battle.