Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, wulfie wrote:

> If XML becomes the de-facto standard it should make docs fully
> portable. Of course, the XML will just be a wrapper around MS doc types
> thus spoiling the effect.....

And all document sizes will be over 1Mb even for a post it note. :)
Seriously, I think I'm the only person in the world that thinks XML is
a horribly inefficient format, in both parsing time and file size.
And CSS, whooo, just reading that standard makes me come over queasy. :)


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