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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] My perspective. display perferct?
robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > But you have not been able to express this in a way the allows the user > to use an application to intentionally alter content. If we say that an > application cannot change the content of a document, then we just > prohibited word processors. If we allow applications to change content > as directed by the user, then we are reduced to "Don't do anything > unexpected". Well, I haven't understood that like you did. Ok, there is the fact that members (both writers and lurkers) on this list are not all native English speakers, so we might have a problem choosing apropriate wording to express our intentions or opinions. What I understood is that the application should not modify data on it's own. Take this example: an application called Write 95 makes a document. You take that document, open it in Write 2003 and then simply save it back in Write 95 format. Because of an unknown reason (that might be the fact that Write 2003 use internal standard to represent any file,thus forgetting original Write 95 format as soon as the document is loaded), the other document is different in size, and there might even be some missing font metrics. I believe that is the point - we do not want applications to do any internal modifications of a document unless the user adds, modifies or deletes something. Input file should be exactly the same as the output file if there were no user interactions (we should consider spell checking as user interaction). The bottom line is that standard compliant applications should not modify data in any way unless they're instructed by the user. If I want to spellcheck, I'll do it. If I want to resize or reduce an image, you bet that I want to have control over that, and not some freakin' application!
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