> On 25 Mar 2015, at 11:13 pm, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/icewarp-and-collabora-are-working-on-libreoffice-online-document-editing-an-open-source-alternative-to-google-apps-office-365/
>  
> <https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/icewarp-and-collabora-are-working-on-libreoffice-online-document-editing-an-open-source-alternative-to-google-apps-office-365/>

Some more technical details here:

https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-03-25-libreoffice-icewarp.html 
<https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-03-25-libreoffice-icewarp.html>

I think both approaches are useful, for different scenarios. Theirs is best for 
fidelity - that is, it will present a visual representation of the document 
that, from what I understand, will be identical to what you would see in 
LibreOffice itself. It does however rely very heavily on the server side to 
implement a large proportion of the editing logic.

Our approach (using HTML for rendering) provides less fidelity (in the sense of 
a LO/OO rendered version of a document being the “authoritative” rendering - 
though this depends on your needs, particularly if you’re focused on content 
rather than presentation). However our advantage is that *all* of the editing 
logic resides on the client, and we only need to talk to the server for 
document conversion and loading/saving purposes.

—
Dr Peter M. Kelly
[email protected]

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