>> We hear a lot about web enabled applications. Has anyone investigated >> the concept of Abiword running as a web application on a LAN web >> server, accessed through an https login from a broswer? > >For a school project i did setup a PHP based web frontend which used >Abiword to convert files to other formats, particularly html for viewing >online. > >> It seems to me that this might be handy in heterogenous LANS, >> particularly when thin client computing is desired, but also when a > >Abiword is very small, you can actually cram in on a floppy disk. >A think client would more likely run a normal copy of Abiword on the >server and use a remote display rather than messing about with making it a >web appliction. > >You should probably take a look at AbiMoz (by Oeone), which turns abiword >into a mozilla plugin. http://abimoz.mozdev.org > >> mix of Linux, Unix, Windows and Macs are used. Updating fonts on all > >Abiword runs on almost all those platforms anyway, Hub is working on a Mac >port. Abiword win32 even runs reasonably well on Wine+linux. It really >does not make sense to try and beat a round peg into a square hole. > >> the clients wouldn't be an issue, and font servers wouldn't have to >> run. A mix of X3 and X4 wouldn't matter. You could log in from any >> client running any OS provided it has a graphical browser and supports >> https. > >Font issues are no longer much of an issue on the 1.1 branch. > >> This probably isn't an issue for many users, but in networks where >> appliances, terminals, and many operating systems must co-exist, it >> could be useful. One server to maintain/upgrade, no concern about >> client compatibility. > >> Any thoughts? Most likely it can't be done, but I'm curious. > >I could be done, but it does not really make sense to do things the way >you suggest. >You really should think about what goal you are really trying to acheive >rather than all the ways you could do things. > >Patches welcome, sponsor a developer, help write documentation ... etc.
Wouldn't an Abiword browser plug in would also make a terrific editor for weblog and CMS websites Chris ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
