On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > IMHO, the more interesting thing would be lighter-weight component, > maybe HTML5 based. Data-aware, both common web formats like JSON and > OData, but also ODF-aware. A spreadsheet component that you can > easily embed into a website. Not only for ad-hoc use, but as part of > an overall application. > > That is one of the top requests I hear for the ODF Toolkit -- a > reusable editor widget.
Yes, that' s doable as well, and would fill a need. I just question the popular wisdom of HTML5 and cloud computing as the next holy grail. IMHO It isn' t. I' ve just typed "about:memory" on my Firefox browser and it turns out the browser is allocating 450 megabytes of RAM for running JS code, and I just have a dozen tabs open, including two cloud 'apps' : GMail and Twitter. Are these the "lean apps" of the future? Give me a break... ;) :) FC PS: I do remember Lotus eSuite. I belive IBM cancelled the effort shortly after v1.1 (or was it 1.2?) shipped (which, following IBM' s tradition 1.1 was more "what 1.0 should have been"). Also, it was applets-based. Applets are heavily restricted and bear no resemblance of what you can do today with Java6+ APIs and Java WebStart. I often point out at http://ho.io/muCommander as an example of how a properly done Java-based app can be, that can be launched via JWS (try loading http://tinyurl.com/launchMUC from any system with Java enabled and JWS properly configured and see what I mean).
