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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] The importance to users of documents looking the same
2008/6/20 Sander Marechal <sander.marechal@tribal-im.com>: > The problem seems to be that, at the moment, the data does not arrive > intact. It's not that the layout isn't pixel-perfect the same between > applications, but the layout can vary wildly between applications. This > presents a problem because indexes, references and table-of-contents, > page numbering, etcetera are all wrong for example. The longer the > document, the more wrong they are. Yes. As far as the user is concerned, the layout is part of the document. You can tell users "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU'RE WRONG TO CARE" but it won't make them not care. > Along comes application Bar and it renders differently. Now the heading > would be rendered halway down a page, or near the top. Because of the > manual page-break you now have a nearly empty page in your document. Ugly... Yes. Saying "what are you worrying about, all the words are there" is grossly missing the point. The user cares, and it's a relevant part of interoperability. It's not the whole of interoperability, but it's not none of it. - d.
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