Two links people might find interesting in this context

Two links people might find interesting in this context

Posted Dec 10, 2006 16:32 UTC (Sun) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
In reply to: Two links people might find interesting in this context by khim
Parent article: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

write glue code from scratch - and get full importer.

Why would they even write the glue code from scratch? As the blog posting points out "There is a lot of commonality between the in-memory data model for Win32 Office and Mac Office, since they share a lot of the same code". Writing from scratch should be the last resort. That would be like Win-OpenOffice and Linux-OpenOffice having independent code for importing the same documents.

The comparison between KWord and OOo is bogus. They don't come from the same codebase to start with so there would be very little that they could reuse. Let's imagine they somehow did share the ODF importer code, would that imply that ODF was so horrible and complex the the KWord team had to reuse the OOO code?

I haven't read the spec for OpenXML but I believe everyone when they say it stinks. There are apparently lots of reasons. That MS are resusing code between Win-Word to Mac-Word is not one of them.

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