[fpc-devel] property syntax extension

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Oct 18 12:59:49 CEST 2007



On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Michael Schnell schreef:
> > 
> > > I bet you those two are MS Office users [..ducking and hiding..]
> > >   
> > Should be no problem at all.
> > AFAIK (I'm not an MS-Office user  :-) ), there is a free plugin that enables
> > even M$-Office to read and write standard conform files (i.e. Open Document
> > ODT).
> 
> I think it is better to send a RTF document than a ODT document:
> * it is smaller
> * more programs can read it
> * no need to download and install plug-ins for a seizable minority of people
> without open office or ODT-plug-in installed.

Then why have a standard, if no-one is going to use it ?

Michael.



More information about the fpc-devel mailing list