[odf-discuss] Three kinds of tests

[Sander Marechal]

M. Fioretti wrote:
>>     No sense in us spending months on text styles if spreadsheet
>>     formulas are the things that are causing the most problems.
> 
> technically speaking, it makes perfect sense: what creates problems to
> _real_ end users (ie the people who _actually_ use ODF in the field
> for their work) has top priority. But this is not a technical battle,
> is a political one: I mean that any ODF-capable application,
> especially desktop office suites, would probably be asked by
> indoctrinated burocrats to have "100% conformance or nothing" to be
> considered in any public tender. How would this be handled?

I don't think there's risk of that. No web browser is 100% conformant. 
No office suit will be 100% conformant. They won't be able to fill the 
tender :-)

I think it's more likely that they ask that an interoperability test 
suite passes. That should be more important to them.

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Sander Marechal