On 13/11/2013, Luuk <luu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-11-2013 18:31, e-letter wrote: >> >> What is wrong with using webdav? >> > > LOL, good question, but did you really need 9 month to come up with this > question? ;) >
:) I shall blame the other recent replies to this post which were in the latest digest and prompted me to find the original message :) > I think webdav means that you need a local installation of > (libre)office. (if not, please provide a link with more info) > > With a web-enabled version this is not necessary > So, without reading all the posts, it seems there is a perceived demand to be able to edit an odf file stored on a remote server, via internet access and a web browser. So Mr Andreesen (netscape) was right after all: the web browser _is_ the operating system for some. The use case raises the interesting philosophical question: why create the remote-access document in odf, when html was designed for this specific purpose? If the document has relatively simple format and structure, the original document format for remote access surely should be html. If the document is complex (e.g. a spreadsheet with polynomial formulae, documents with maths equations, etc.), relying on internet connection and LO as a server program seems very high risk of causing document corruption if there's a drop in connection. Highly probable with (dominant in future if not already) mobile connectivity. Long-term, the aim should be to increase use and installations of LO and/or ODF to the same level as a web browser. Providing a LO server version seems a waste of programmers' time to do higher priority (less sexy) reduction in LO bugs. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
