On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:17:29PM -0700, tom poe wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 18:36, Steven T. Hatton wrote: - - - snip - - - In order for me to distribute my resume on line, I am, for all intents and
purposes required to poses a Microsoft OS. This is due to the fact that I must ensure that my code runs and renders properly under IE, or MS Word.
Hi, Steven: C'mon. Get a Grip! Why do you need a job, anyway? <grin>
You know, Batik and SVG were looking real promising for overcoming this problem, but the W3C.org has gone commercial, and is no longer setting standards for the world community, but setting standards for private industry. So, that option won't be available.
Well, what options do you have? Can you use RTF? Are you limited to text and html? How about sending some poor sucker a text document, have them pretty it up, and send it back. You upload it, and then the recruiter/HR can choose which they like best to download, text or M$WORD.doc.
It shouldn't be too long, between StarOffice and KDE [maybe Gnome?] will be able to put out comparable stuff. What do you think? Just a thought, Tom
If appearance is important, how about learning TeX/LaTeX, which will produce a far better looking document than MS-Word if used properly, and then use pdflatex to get an Acrobat file, which will be almost universally readable by any browser, since most of them come with the Acrobat plug-in standard now. But if something works in Opera I am sure it will work fine in Internet Explorer, if it is important for you to use html. Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>