Am 03.08.2015 um 17:54 schrieb Le_Forgeron:
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> Le 03/08/2015 09:10, clipka a écrit :
>> Office 2010, and the loads of UI analysis and research went into
>> it.
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> When you are used to WinWord since 1995, Office 2010 is a PITA for
> usual edition:

... and that tradition of poorly (if at all) designed UI is exactly what 
the developers of Office 2010 wanted to do away with.

I don't like working with Office 2010 myself, for exactly the same 
reason; still, you can't argue with two fact: (1) Microsoft put a hell 
lot of effort into analyzing user expectation and interaction during the 
design of the Office 2010 interface; and (2) for people /not/ accustomed 
to the - let's be honest - horrible user interface of prior versions of 
MS Office, the Office 2010 user interface is probably quite a good one.

> The docx format is painful also: being a zipped xml, but without
> internal management of versions, it is hardly compatible with any DCMS
> (well, unless each version/commit become a blob by itself, with the
> associated problems of disk space and bandwidth).

As if the prior binary file formats were any better for version 
management...

Also, it would be much easier in terms of version management if DCMS had 
learned to deal with zipped files already. It's a pretty standard way of 
keeping files (or sets thereof) small, so why the Bloops haven't DCMS 
learned to unpack them long ago?

In my book, that's poor design of DCMS rather than the Office file 
format. As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the zipping I guess the 
DOCX file format would make for a pretty easy format to version manage.

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