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It's frustrating how we're still fighting over this stuff when 99% of documents and spreadsheets (the data, not the formulas) could be zipped html except if not
by Pxtl 7mo ago
It's frustrating how we're still fighting over this stuff when 99% of documents and spreadsheets (the data, not the formulas) could be zipped html except if not that spreadsheet editors and document editors don't have a standardized subset of html to support.
- Ekaros 7mo agoThat sounds rather bad idea. HTML is really not designed for proper data storage. It can display something, but I don't think it is right tool for the job. Just because html can present something like tables doesn't mean it is right tool for tabular data.
- RobotToaster 7mo agoODF is just XML.
- shiroiuma 7mo agoThis is like saying that HTML is "just" ASCII/UTF-8 text. Lots of formats are based on XML, but they're not compatible with each other and their schema require complicated parsers.
- anthk 7mo agoHTML sucks for proper formatting. CSS it's a clusterfuck and it can't be any rigorous standard for anything.
- Pxtl 7mo agoI don't mean HTML+CSS, I mean just HTML, as a middle-step between CSV and full spreadsheet file. HTML with only the table tags allowed get you a document that you can 1) View in a browser, 2) Has table headers and the ability to define column widths and combine cells But you can leave presentation up to the viewer. Same principle as Markdown, but markdown tables are bad.