Hi Ged, On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:06 +0100, Ged Wed wrote: > whats the support for doing a web based open office ? > Ajax based with a restful JSON or XML model.
Well, it is not an impossibly bad idea :-) > I am asking because this seems like such a good move. > Libre Office would then have a very compelling solution that neither > google Docs or MS Office can really compete against. Riight; except they are already in the market place - which makes us at least two years away from there, even if we had a product now :-) > - what is important is that both the fat client and the thin client > are both adapted towards the client / server model together. This > makes both version easy to maintain, change control, testing etc Well - since we have a fat client; I would personally focus on two things: a) feature parity between fat and web client + no-one else does this. + fat client for off-line, web for (who? ;-) b) abandon hope of off-line web editing: that's why you have the fat client right ? :-) which means, we have to re-use the fat client on the web server; that means all sorts of good things: we need to make it smaller, more reliable, faster to start, etc. etc. and it also makes some things a lot easier; IMHO doing remote rendering by cutting at VCL and proxying rendering (wherever possible) to a remote canvas, -might- work in semi-linear time. I'm thinking a re-hash of: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/ Though of course VCL's rendering APIs are (now) substantially less pleasant than gtk+'s. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice