Re:Microsoft office 365 v/s Open Source Fedena
by Someone on Sunday April 28, 2013 @01:27PM
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"because your clients are pointing to documents your program has created and saying that right here, there, and here too, the Word95-like autospacing is missing."
Firstly, I think it is way more likely they will point to documents they created earlier or that they received over the mail that your word processor does not show correctly (page breaks will change, which means textual references such as 'line 2 of page 3' will break).
Secondly, I doubt they will phrase it as "look, Word95-like autospacing is missing" it's more likely that they will say "MS Word is way better than your #%$! product".
You and I know this is part of some compatibility section of the spec, but if a customer has thousands of documents somewhat depending on those features, you must support it.
In summary: it may not be a matter of wanting to support that feature, but of having to support it.
Firstly, I think it is way more likely they will point to documents they created earlier or that they received over the mail that your word processor does not show correctly (page breaks will change, which means textual references such as 'line 2 of page 3' will break).
Secondly, I doubt they will phrase it as "look, Word95-like autospacing is missing" it's more likely that they will say "MS Word is way better than your #%$! product".
You and I know this is part of some compatibility section of the spec, but if a customer has thousands of documents somewhat depending on those features, you must support it.
In summary: it may not be a matter of wanting to support that feature, but of having to support it.