On 1/14/2015 7:31 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
Web apps are connected to severs that (surprise) actually serve up
content (from data bases or news feeds or something else). But what
would wLeo serve up? Well, a .leo file, presumably on a *local*
machine. That being so, we might as well use Leo on that local file.
Just like vim and emacs do. Yes, we could imagine a collaborative Leo
working on shared .leo files, but that seems pretty much a fantasy.
Just my $0.02, so feel free to ignore, but...
This is a fallacy. wLeo could access .leo files in a variety of spaces:
- Local files
- github repos
- elsewhere in 'the cloud' (DropBox? SpiderOak?)
- stored on a private server
This is nothing that the desktop Leo couldn't do with a bit of work and
some clever plugins, that much is true. But here's the kicker: Leo
doesn't run in web browsers. *Any* platform with a modern, standards
compliant web browser would be able to run wLeo, **with no
installation**. That last point is a big one. This means that *one
single codebase* will run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS,
Blackberry OS, Windows Phone, Tizen, Mozilla/Firefox OS, etc, with no
complicated user installation. I believe a web frontend for Leo (which
is all wLeo would need to be) would be an absolute boon to the
community... existing web-based outliners just don't cut it, imo.
But... this is a long road to go down.
-->Jake
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