> And no, things like Openoffice^W Libreoffice Base or Kexi are about 1,000,000 miles away from even being useable, much less good. ... which is why we started

> And no, things like Openoffice^W Libreoffice Base or Kexi are about 1,000,000 miles away from even being useable, much less good. ... which is why we started from the problem of document compatibility (something I really wish GDocs and Numbers for iOS focused on). In the process of building and discovering test cases (repo: https://github.com/SheetJS/test_files https://github.com/SheetJS/test_files) we found and reported bugs in OO, Apache POI, roo, xlrd and other parsers https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls and https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx are the parsers underlying this.