From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 23:32:56 EST
From the Sane Anarchist,
>I would like to have perfect compatability with Word, just like when I
>design
>a web page I want perfect compatability with Internet Explorer. But not at
>the loss of complying with the standards that browsers (or word processors)
>should be following anyway.
Standards are nothing but man-made arbitrary rules, and they become more
arbitrary and meaningless if nobody follows them. I know none of us like to
admit this, but MS-Word, bad as it is, has become THE word processing
standard. I work in the legal profession and, while WordPerfect was the
standard for years with lawyers, we are now being forced into switching to
Word because our clients use it and demand that our documents be compatible
with Word. I can't very well tell my client that the reason my Abi created
document can't be read on his computer is because his MS-Word doesn't follow
the standards. My client couldn't give two hoots about standards.
Virgil
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