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Rockbox Development => Feature Ideas => Topic started by: wad11656 on August 17, 2010, 01:08:44 PM
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Hey! I just thought it would be very useful if we were to enable more file types within the file browser to create our devices into even MORE useful devices. I was thinking .doc, .htm, and .html, but of course there are countless others, but I was thinking more of the standard formats.
Being able to view the file types that already ARE supported has been very useful for me. I think this would be awesome as well!
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There is a (probably outdated) patch for a HTML parser in the tracker: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7114
As for Word files: those are binary blobs. The format changes with every release, and that's enough reason to not wanting to have to support that.
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I suppose open document format (odf) is more plausible. I could imagine finding that useful sometimes, personally - even if it stripped out all formatting information, embedded objects etc, and just rendered it as plain text.