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Jacob Coffee

@scriptr.dev

TIL a docx file is a zip file in a trenchcoat 🕵🏼

18/1/26, 8:09 pm0 reposts4 likes

Anthony Shaw

@anthonypjshaw.bsky.social

20 Feb

It’s a folder of XML files in a ZIP file. Xlsx and pptx are the same. ECMA-376 is the standard 🤓 . learn.microsoft.com/en-us/opensp...

learn.microsoft.com[MS-OE376]: Office Implementation Information for ECMA-376 Standards SupportSpecifies information about how Microsoft Office implements ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats [ECMA-376], including

Rémy

@xowap.dev

18 Jan

That's extremely sad because it could be a SQLite database, be written incrementally, be loaded partially in RAM and be written with consistency. But apparently they didn't want Word to be able to write big documents.