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Being locked into some vendor is one thing, but I find worse is people insisting to send something in .doc (or other rich text format) while plain text or texts
by unsignedint 13y ago
Being locked into some vendor is one thing, but I find worse is people insisting to send something in .doc (or other rich text format) while plain text or texts in the body of E-mail would just suffice.
- shadowOfShadow 13y agotry .docx since it's an open format. It's interesting to see OP and you both talk about .doc. It shows your familiarity with the details of the topic.
- unsignedint 13y agoOh I meant to be more of general statement... I'd be as frustrated if it was odt if use case wouldn't warrant it. Though docx has its own problem -- a lot of free implementations do not handle it correctly and MS implementation of OpenDocument is largely incomplete (as far as I know from 2007's implementation...) Honestly, using LibreOffice day to day with other users being MS Office users, ironically doc seems to be most complete interchangeable format with these users. I think some of those come from ambiguity of spec so I guess there are mulple parties to be blamed.