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On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 4:03 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As to sending out reports as Excel spreadsheets, I'd have the same objection to that as I would to sending them out as Numbers spreadsheets: it's a proprietary format.
With content being XML, this argument has weakened somehow.
Not just weakened, it's completely gone. The Excel file format is not
proprietary AT ALL.
The specs are an open, published standard:
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-376/
If someone wants to argue that the Excel format is complex, or even
convoluted, that is something completely different.
(I would actually agree that it's on the convoluted side. There is
some unavoidable complexity, because of everything that the format
supports, but I think that some things could have been less complex
with no loss of functionality.)
John Y.
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