On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Rayson Ho raysonlogin@gmail.com wrote:
In theory, we can write some code to scan the files (they are zip files, so it's not hard to find out what's inside). and limit what uploaders can put in the ODF files. I think XML and graphic files are valid file types. May be a few hundred lines of Perl or Python will do the job... provided that there are helper utilities are available :D
I guess I will check with the ODF guys. BTW, how likely will we enble ODF upload support if I can come up with such a filter??
There's still the problem that most ODF uploads would be much more suitable as wiki pages. That makes them a lot easier to edit. Your presentation could be uploaded as a bunch of images that you'd put on the wiki page. Then each image could be edited separately, etc. The same goes double for documents that are mainly text. You have to download and reupload to edit, you need to install some special software to do the editing, there are no automatic diffs, . . .