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Will you be my friend too? 15 Sep 2010 | 01:38 pm
The other day I noticed that the traffic on my blog had increased dramatically. I couldn’t really understand why (I have not written anything substantial in quite some time) – all I could see was that...
Moving towards OOXML(S) (update) 31 May 2010 | 07:01 pm
Some time ago I wrote about some of the enhancements of Microsoft Office in terms of how far they have made it in implementing the content of the conformance profile "Strict" or "<S>". As you might re...
Correct according to spec or implementation? 22 Apr 2010 | 01:52 am
In the recent SC34 WG4-meeting in Stockholm, validators quickly became the talk of the town - so to speak. As I am sure you all know, Alex Brown made the office-o-tron some time ago - a validator targ...
Validating OOXML documents 1 Apr 2010 | 10:37 pm
The question of “is this a valid document?” is tricky. At the end of the day it comes down to the description in the conformance clauses of the specification of the document being considered. The conf...
Final nail in the coffin for the "highlander approach" 23 Mar 2010 | 04:06 am
On January 29th the Danish politicians finally got their acts together and did something about open document formats. After almost 3 years of debate and endless dragging of their feet - a consensus an...
Moving towards OOXML(S) 15 Feb 2010 | 05:00 pm
Some time ago I wrote a bit about what Microsoft Office had managed to get into Microsoft Office 2010 CTP1 (or, I wrote about the stuff I had tested). As you might recall, the results were rather slim...
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta, ODF and leap-year-bug 6 Feb 2010 | 01:45 am
Some time ago I did some tests of Excel in Microsoft Office 2010 (CTP). The test was around OOXML - but test of ODF-support was missing. One of the things ODF is missing but is in OOXML is the leap-y...
I hate automatic spam filtering 23 Nov 2009 | 05:14 pm
Every time you use a tool, you make a (conscious) decision to trust that tool to do what it says. This is true for closed source software and open source software alike (especially if you don't have t...
Excel 2010 (Microsoft Office 2010 CTP TO-do list (01) 3 Nov 2009 | 08:11 pm
I have been looking at how Excel 2010 has implemented various features using ISO/IEC 29500-4:2008 - also known as "OOXML Transitional". Background: ISO/IEC comes in two variants, a "transitional" (T...
Mummy, Tom from school is an idiot 30 Oct 2009 | 10:59 pm
Back in the day when I started blogging, I showed a friend of mine a blog post I had written. He noticed the large number of links to other bloggers in the piece, and he asked me (tongue-in-cheek) if ...
