{"id":122,"date":"2007-08-24T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2007\/08\/defective-by-design.html"},"modified":"2007-08-24T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:36:00","slug":"defective-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/defective-by-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Defective by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader of this blog, or almost any other blog covering the file format battle, then you have certainly come across comments from Stephane Rodriguez.  He brings a unique perspective, knowing more about the legacy binary Excel formats than any sane person I know.   So it a treat to have from Stephane a fuller exposition of some problems he ran into working with the Microsoft OOXML formats, in an technical article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstdesign.com\/articles\/DefectiveByDesign.htm\">Microsoft Office XML Formats? Defective by Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>27 August Update:  Slashdot has <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/08\/25\/2219202\">further coverage<\/a> of Stephane&#8217;s article.  Some good comments and perspectives can be read there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader of this blog, or almost any other blog covering the file format battle, then you have certainly come across comments from Stephane Rodriguez. He brings a unique perspective, knowing more about the legacy binary Excel formats than any sane person I know. So it a treat to have from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ooxml","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}