Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Re: Submissions in proprietary formats

[Imran Ghory]

On 29 Jan 2001, at 15:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Philippe Aigrain wrote:
> > In addition, I do not think that the rules above create any serious
> > bottleneck for authors of articles. And having them see how MSWord
> > saves to HTML will even be educative :-)
> 
> One problem is that the HTML generated by the MSWord 'save as'
> function is evil.  Really evil.  Even if it is HTML, it is evil HTML,
> because it makes excessive use of stylesheets, etc.  It's basically a
> heroic attempt to preserve all of the stlistic niceties of a
> wordprocess in HTML, which is evil.

Maybe we should create a Microsoft Word HTML -> W3C 
HTML3.02 converter. After all it ought to be easier then converting 
.doc files and Microsoft are hardly likely to claim ownership of 
HTML.

Imran