Re: [office] preferred view mode upon opening document

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

This sounds good to me. I only would like to add that whenever an 
implementor adds an implementation specific value and believes that 
other implementations could make reasonable use of it, that I then would 
strongly recommend to submit a proposal to the TC to standardize this value.

Michael

On 29.10.08 22:09, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
>  > 2. What about a sentence on the specification like: "It is 
>> recommended that all custom view mode specification documentation is
>> made available to enhance documents interoperability" ?
>>
> 
> The issue Warren raises is a general issue, not exclusive to view mode 
> alone.  One way to address this globally is two add two things to the ODF 
> text:
> 
> 1) Where ever something like this occurs, explicitly call the behavior 
> "implementation-defined".  Use that as a uniform label of areas where ODF 
> allows implementations to implement their own behaviors.  So we say 
> something like "Additional view modes may be used, but they shall be 
> prefixed by a namespace qualifier not defined by this standard.  The 
> behavior of such view modes is implementation-defined".
> 
> 2) Then in the conformance clause, we add language like:  "An 
> implementation shall be accompanied by a document that defines all 
> implementation-defined and locale-specific characteristics and all 
> extensions."  (That is the language directly out of ISO/IEC 9899:1999 C 
> Programming Language.  You can see here what one implementation created to 
> define its "implementation-defined" features:  
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Implementation.html
> 
> We don't need that exact language, but you get the idea.  A standard can 
> allow implementation-defined behavior, but can also require that these be 
> documented.  If we're going to do this, I'd rather we do it pervasively in 
> the standard rather than just in the view mode attribute.
> 
> What do TC members think? 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob
> 
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