Re: [FrameSGML] RE: Office 2003 Beta

[Mark Barratt <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DW Emory wrote:

> So, what it comes down to is this:
> 
> If you want to have it all and you accept the Microsoft approach, you're 
> stuck with Microsoft stinking Word and specific types of Windoze platforms. 
> If that isn't an overt attempt to preempt/hijack an emerging universal 
> standard, what is it?

Dan

You may be letting your enthusiasm for Microsoft swamp your critical 
faculties. You may think they are bad people, but bad people sometimes 
do good things. I don't have access to the Office 11 public beta (I have 
to order a CD from the USA) but other reports are that it does what it 
advertises.

This is at least as much as Frame does. That is, Frame will validate a 
document to a DTD  (not, sadly, to a schema) and ship out the XML 
without any formatting information. The formatting information is 
available through a MIF file - the equivalent of what Moritz describes 
as a 'rich Word XML document'. What, in principle, is the difference 
(apart from market-share)?

The Open Office initiative is essentially a Sun commercial tactic. Now, 
I seem to remember something about confusing motive and effect from 
Philosophy 101, so we should keep an open mind about it.

best


Mark Barratt


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