On 15/11/2011 21:29, Melinda Shore wrote: > That sort of sarcasm has a tendency not to work out in the > longer run. no, probably not. It's just that I've been hearing the same complaint about unwillingness to upgrade to widely-supported file / display / etc formats for as long I've been dabbling on the internet. The complaint lost its rustic charm a long time ago, if it ever had any. The world moves on. The thing is, pptx is very widely supported and has been widely supported for several years. And no matter how much we all dislike upgrading our desktops, I'm finding it really hard to sympathise with people complaining about a format which is already supported or can trivially be supported by the 94%-odd of all office/productivity suite installations in the world. If this is peoples' position, why not revert to ascii7 for everything? Is it really _that_ hard to upgrade to OOo 3.x? Or to install the office-xml binary shim set for office 2003? Incidentally, I am not a supporter of free-for-all file format support, but solely because of posterity support: the ietf archives will be of interest to historians one day, and there is no better way to make it difficult to analyse things than by accepting a multitude of file formats, some of which change rapidly or have bizarrely different and incompatible implementations (e.g. odf). Nick _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf