Re: Atlantis and Abi

From: Reuben D Budiardja (reubendb@goshen.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:15:47 EST

  • Next message: Gino Peregrini: "RE: Abi and RTF standards"

    On Monday 25 March 2002 09:56 am, you wrote:

    > We comply entirely with the RTF standards except for internal use only
    > (cut & pasting of lists, mostly) that the outside world never sees.
    > You're filing a bug with the wrong people here. We aren't going to give
    > people an option to save as non-complaint RTF.

    Agreed.

    > > 3.) Stop pretending to have Word export capability and simply have the
    > > option to select whether to comply with Word or with the actual RTF
    > > specs, and make it clear in the documentation that Word can read RTF
    > > files, and they are often smaller than a "real" Word document.
    >
    > We pretend to have word export because too many people complained that
    > we didn't and couldn't get it through their skulls that RTF was
    > compatible with MSWord, no matter how loudly we shouted and how many
    > places we documented it. So we fake it for now, and in my opinion, do a
    > terribly good job at it.

    I think you do a good job. For general user, or lay people (no offense
    whatsoever), RTF is unfamiliar. I myself have to explain to a lot of my
    colleague that RTF can be opened in MS Word. And I got tired of it. So, this
    hack in abiword is a lifesafer. Now, even when I encourage and install
    Abiword for other people, and they ask if Abiword can save as M$ Word, I only
    need to answer with one word, "sure". No need to sing that long boring
    explanation about RTF and M$ Word.

    > Stick to the standards. Make others comply. The world will be a better
    > place.

    Yeah ... yeah. Agreed. As web developer, for dynamic sites for uses in our
    internal network, I only designs it to comply to W3C standard. I don't give a
    damn if the sites look sucks in MSIE because MSIE does not comply to
    standard. I tell them to switch to Mozilla. We NEED standards!!!

    Rdb
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