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Re:Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet by hermanmerman on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:11PM (#9970481)
Isn't it exactly the opportunity at hand? No matter how much you don't want them to, people will still use spreadsheets, and the reasons why don't even matter. Instead of getting in another lost battle (Hypercard), just give people what they want, and combine their love of spreadsheets with their need for data connectivity.
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Re:Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet by normloman on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:25PM (#9970570)
The "give people what they want" philosophy leads saving word documents as HTML.
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Re:Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet by smacktoward on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:04PM (#9970846)
Which, from an interoperability perspective, is an improvement, no?

I feel like this is one of those things we as geeks tend to miss. We look at that document and say "Ew! Look at that crappy HTML." But we miss the point that, no matter how crappy the HTML is, the fact that it's HTML at all makes it better in many ways than the same doc was when it was locked in .DOC or .DOCX.

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