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from: Mike N.
date: 2007-06-09 20:27:28
subject: Microsoft takes a Flying Leap...forward

From: Mike N. 

http://weblog.infoworld.com/lewis/archives/2007/06/more_microsoft.html
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"And so it was that today I tried to publish a project plan, developed
in MS Project, in HTML format. It was a nice little feature in the previous
version of Project. Now it's gone.

But never fear, because ... Project's Help system says it best:

Microsoft Office Project 2007 does not support the ability to save a
project file as a Web page. Instead, you can save a project as a more
flexible XML file. This enables you to apply any style sheet to the XML
file.

Got that? One problem: Unless you're willing to program one of these style
sheets, you can't do anything useful with the XML file, like sharing it
with other people so they can view it in their browsers.

That's right: Internet Explorer (for example) won't even open the file for viewing.

Aside from that it's a Great Leap Forward." ...

  This is just like the great rocket science erector set theory in the
migration from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005: The fundamental
capability to "create comment web pages" of the source code was
yanked and replaced with a do-it-yourself alternative: every developer out
there in the world who wants source code documentation has to roll their
own XML-XSLT translation package.   Granted, 90% of developers are going to
customize this to each project, but why not have at least a template to start from?

  To do that to Visual Studio to devs is one matter - to pull that trick on
Project users; who probably never wrote a line of XML or XSLT code in their
life is ludicrous.

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