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Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Re: Submissions in proprietary formats
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Imran Ghory |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Re: Submissions in proprietary formats |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:25:04 -0000 |
On 29 Jan 2001, at 15:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Philippe Aigrain wrote:
> > In addition, I do not think that the rules above create any serious
> > bottleneck for authors of articles. And having them see how MSWord
> > saves to HTML will even be educative :-)
>
> One problem is that the HTML generated by the MSWord 'save as'
> function is evil. Really evil. Even if it is HTML, it is evil HTML,
> because it makes excessive use of stylesheets, etc. It's basically a
> heroic attempt to preserve all of the stlistic niceties of a
> wordprocess in HTML, which is evil.
Maybe we should create a Microsoft Word HTML -> W3C
HTML3.02 converter. After all it ought to be easier then converting
.doc files and Microsoft are hardly likely to claim ownership of
HTML.
Imran