[odf-discuss] Alex Brown responds to Rob Weir

[Daniel Carrera]

Michiel Leenaars wrote:
> I think putting ODF applications seriously through some pain tests is
> actually a great idea.

Certainly. And while I, in my limited understanding, believe that some 
of Alex's criticism is misplaced, I think that through the back and 
forth between Rob and Alex we are identifying some good areas of 
improvement for both ODF and OOo.

> So what we need is some sort of 'Acid2/3'-test (as made famous by the
> Web Standards Project, http://www.acidtests.org) for ODF - that way we
> can start being serious about interoperability.

Something like Acid tests for ODF sounds really good to me. That is, 
having a single document that tests many features. However, I note that 
Rob Weir seems to prefer a different approach, where there are many 
documents and each document tests one feature and one feature only. I 
don't know enough about conformance testing to have an opinion on which 
is better. I would love to hear from Rob as to why he prefers the 
approach he prefers.


Cheers,
Daniel.