RE: [office-comment] ODF still fails to specify scripting properly (ODF 1.2 CD01)

["Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Rick,


> So, without going into MCE (which I as I said, I think is necessary
too),
> what things are needed in order to make it impractical for Microsoft
to
> embrace, extend and extinguish ODF?

Uhm, let's not go into vendor bashing shall we...
I'm not defending any vendor, but let us just focus on improving the
spec so that no-one can accidentally (or willingly) misinterpret it....


> 1) For a start, clear normative text saying that in a closed minimal
> ODF document, there should be no use of any mechanism to avoid
> representing data that could be represented using standard ODF with
any
> other mechanism, nor any obfuscation or tag abuse. This kind of
blanket
> statement closes many loopholes.

Very good point, I like it.


> In other words, *no* application data of any kind, *no* non-standard
data
> or data values of any kind, *no* circumvention of any kind. And this
> applies to all files and formats in the ZIP archive.

+1


Bart