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On 25/02/14 07:41, Brad Rogers wrote:
But OOXML allows a binary blob which means it ONLY really runs on Windows. And MS cant even adhere to their own paid for 'standard'.On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:36:44 +0000 Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Martijn,The same of course is true for HTML, so this in itself shouldn't be heldI may have been unclear; I'm talking about OOXML as ratified by the ISO. 'HTML' is a moving goal whereas OOXML is a ratified ISO standard. Any deviation from that standard isn't allowed (it's stops being the standard). Any software that is supposed to be able to handle OOXML should be able to deal with it wherever it's generated. A subset of free flowing HTML would be ideal - this would be usable across almost all device and would be a lot more accessible and substantially reduce the need for printing. A JSON data interface standard would allow embedding of data in aforesaid 'documents' and useful data exchange too. With HTML they could even hand out a CKeditor modified for almost any device for about a days work for each one. It took me about an hour to write a document control system using CKeditor and a mysql dbase - you could do it in sqllite quite easily, or just provide a cut and paste service for 'sending' to the government. IF the government wanted standards and knew what it was doing it could it themselves a lot more easily that trying to herd the cats on the outside. Tom te tom te tom |
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