RE: [office-collab] An Abiword / Calligra developer's view of theChange Tracking events.

[monkeyiq <monkeyiq@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 17:16 +0000, John Haug wrote:
> Hi Ben – 
> 

> 
> > How closely does the "extended" proposal mirror what is performed by
> Microsoft Word for non ODF formats? For me, it would be interesting to
> see how these things play out, and how the user interface offers such
> functionality in an existing implementation of the "extended"
> proposal.
> 
> Even if that implementation stores in non ODF currently.
> 
> Please note that there is not yet a prototype of the extended
> proposal.  We haven’t jumped the gun to build anything into Word
> without appropriate discussion and agreement in the SC; that is,
> Microsoft isn’t attempting to force something we’ve built onto the ODF
> standard.  I apologize in advance if I misunderstood and that’s not
> what you were implying, but I do want to make sure that’s clear to
> everyone.

Well, I was mainly interested in seeing how another tool performs change
tracking. If Microsoft Word used similar constructs for docx then I
could play around there and see how things work in another tool.
(assuming I setup the platform etc).