RE: [TCLUG:17130] Dreamweaver (was: <OT:anti-M$> *scary* stuff...)

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@mortgage.wellsFargo.COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com [SMTP:Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:49 PM
> To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject:	RE: [TCLUG:17130] Dreamweaver (was: <OT:anti-M$> *scary*
> stuff...)
> 
> I don't that you're exactly correct on the closed API
> /file format issue of high-powered commercial apps.
> 
> Lets look at Photoshop:
> 
> Photoshop is widely acknowledged as one the best
> commercial image manipulation program in existance.
> Its file format, PSD, is understood by quite a few image
> programs, including the GIMP.
> 
	Thanks for the Photoshop info.  The only thing I know about it is
its spelling.

	Does the PSD format use proprietary algorhythms? The GIF format
does.

> Or Dreamweaver:
> 
> Well, Dreamweavers proprietary format for saving files
> is HTML, a poorly documented proprietary language.  :P
> 
	Well, it does make use of proprietary "extentions" to HTML that seem
to be problematic, but that's not really a Dreamweaver issue.

> The only thing is a bit weak is Office applications, most
> importantly Microsoft Word.  I think a lot of the translating
> problems for Linux apps is the OLE streams, which are kinda
> funky.  But doesn't GNUmeric use the Excel format?
> 
	I think it uses the attributes of the excel format that are known,
but not the unknown ones.  And definitely not the macro stuff.


	Mark