Re: Apple hiring $MS programmers?

Jolly Roger wrote:

You're overcomplicating the matter. All that is needed is for Apple to
add "Plain text" to the list of formats in the Save dialog, and, when
that is chosen, strip all formatting from the document on-the-fly during
save.

Agreed.

Apple could have gone one step further (not sure about this though).

If you open a document and never use any text formatting functions
(fonts etc etc), then the document would be deemed to be raw text. The
minute you would start changing fonts etc, then the document would
become "rich text" and you would then be given chances to save it in
different formats (including plain text).
.

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