Robert G. Werner
rwerner@lx1.microbsys.com
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> > As far as we know, no one is working on an HTML importer
> > for AbiWord.
> >
> > The core team here at AbiSource doesn't have much interest
> > in this particular feature, actually. Here's why:
> >
> > 1. Importing HTML into a word processor is hard.
>
> > 2. Very hard. [ ... ]
>
> > 3. Really hard. [ ... ]
>
> I'm not being funny, but I don't understand this argument. Lots of
> things are hard; i18n is hard and yet you are still going to do it.
>
> > 4. Writing an interoperable HTML implementation is not fun.
>
> I can understand that doing the same thing that you have done before is
> not fun. But doesn't it still need to be done by someone who doesn't
> bear the scars?
>
> Since you can write a document out as html you should at the very least
> be able to read it back in again.
>
> ..Steve
>