>At the risk of cherry-picking myself, there were 10 formatting wants. 9 of those are reasonable and you chose the 1 that was difficult.
The problem is that this is absolutely not clear to many end users and devs. I have actually dealt with 8 of the 10 formatting wants in the past year, and none are as simple as they sound.
E.g. "using the fonts I use in Office" can be expensive to impossible if you want to properly license the fonts for server use. "No .00 for integers" sounds trivial, but what about ".0000004" when you also implement "No weird .0000004 formatting anywhere". Solveable, but you may need to change the types and not use floating point in some other parts of your application or round the numbers (when?). "The right locale" to use for formatting might change over time in subtle ways due to updates and political/regional changes. Emojis look different in each browser, so you use images: now they look "wrong" in iOS and you probably can't use the Apple Color Emoji font icons due to licensing, etc.
>Not only that, but "behaves like word" is probably meant to be a class of things users want rather than a single thing.
No! Some users might literally find "this behavior is not 1:1 the same as in Word" and if you word ;-) it that way at least someone will understand it as such.
Failing to deliver 100% on such "easy" functionality is often not an option, so just hope that you planned enough time/budget for all the little issues or explain it very well.
The problem is that this is absolutely not clear to many end users and devs. I have actually dealt with 8 of the 10 formatting wants in the past year, and none are as simple as they sound.
E.g. "using the fonts I use in Office" can be expensive to impossible if you want to properly license the fonts for server use. "No .00 for integers" sounds trivial, but what about ".0000004" when you also implement "No weird .0000004 formatting anywhere". Solveable, but you may need to change the types and not use floating point in some other parts of your application or round the numbers (when?). "The right locale" to use for formatting might change over time in subtle ways due to updates and political/regional changes. Emojis look different in each browser, so you use images: now they look "wrong" in iOS and you probably can't use the Apple Color Emoji font icons due to licensing, etc.
>Not only that, but "behaves like word" is probably meant to be a class of things users want rather than a single thing.
No! Some users might literally find "this behavior is not 1:1 the same as in Word" and if you word ;-) it that way at least someone will understand it as such.
Failing to deliver 100% on such "easy" functionality is often not an option, so just hope that you planned enough time/budget for all the little issues or explain it very well.