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Dropbox…opening my docs?
- higherpurpose 12y agoCondoleezza Rice is not wasting anytime, is she?
- openmaze 12y agoThe article is from September 2013 and it has been explained thousands of times that it's just Libreoffice converting the docs into html
- praeivis 12y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374945
- nfm 12y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374945
- xxsq 12y agoThere is a a follow up post that is linked in the link you posted which says the following: As it turns out, Dropbox views/opens certain file types in order to convert them to a compatible format so they are easily accessible via web browser for its users. This makes sense and is common practice for many cloud storage services to provide the convenience of browser access while not needing any additional software to open these documents.