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This is what I keep trying to explain to you. Google Docs do have their own native format, it's absolutely not ODT, and if you want to edit files online they mu
by justinschuh 14y ago
This is what I keep trying to explain to you. Google Docs do have their own native format, it's absolutely not ODT, and if you want to edit files online they must be in the native format. It's as simple as that.
- mkr-hn 14y agoNo, I get that. As I said, several times. I get that Google does that. But I don't understand why Google makes it only work that way. I need to be able to have it work the way all other office suites work because I want to be able to open it in them without exporting. It can be an option off in the periphery. The interface can politely warn me with a little pop-out at the edge that I can't use collaboration features if I enable the "works like all other office suites" function for a document. Call it compatibility mode. Word's web application does this if I edit an ODT in it. LibreOffice does this if I edit a .docx in it. I don't mind. edit: I just noticed your bio. Maybe you can have someone from the Docs team come over and look at this? They might understand what I'm saying.
- justinschuh 14y agoI'll try to explain one last time. Docs is built from the ground up to support real-time collaborative editing, because that's how the Web works. I don't speak for anyone involved with Docs, but I wouldn't expect it to be rearchitected to support the use case you're asking for because it's a major change that introduces tremendous complexity such as: manual saves, document locking, whole document collisions, etc.
- mkr-hn 14y agoSo, to sum all this up, "Docs fundamentally can't work the way you need it to work." I'll stick to LibreOffice and Word.