Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 1/24/11 5:53 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Ged, So - thank you for your nice ideas :-) we can setup a list for this discussion: crack-smoking-re-write-everyhing-in-javascr...@tdf.org or somesuch ? :-) On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:17 +0100, Ged Wed wrote: well you gotta start sometime and

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Samphan Raruenrom
Another idea for a shorter-term solution for this is, instead of web-based LibO, someone make a synchronization software that relay changes between off-line ODF and online Google Docs, a la Google Cloud Connect for MS Office. Working with Google Docs is somewhat painful because it still lacks

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 09:36 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Either way - I don't think this discussion really belongs here - sorry. .. I wouldn't mind spear heading an effort to do a python port of LO in regards to going web based. Cant you integrate the C++ code we have

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello there, Indeed, a first step would be an extension that could store documents on Dropbox and Ubuntu One... what do others think? best, Charles. Le Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:32:48 +0700, Samphan Raruenrom samp...@osdev.co.th a écrit : Another idea for a shorter-term solution for this is,

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Samphan, On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:32 +0700, Samphan Raruenrom wrote: Another idea for a shorter-term solution for this is Great - there is an existing google docs connector out there; it shouldn't be too hard to make this integration better; in particular by re-writing it to be

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Ged Wed
Hey all, Yeah i thought about Google Docs synchronisation. For example this is what i do now but a more manual process. It does work, but as you say you loose fidelity because google docs is not Open Office. I cant help but think that the purist way of rendering directly using html5 and

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-27 Thread Ged Wed
I just want to add that the idea of using Google Docs and the WedDav aspects is a good first step. Sure it allows seamless editing via the web and synchronisation back to your own harddisk OR cloud harddisk. But its a first step. I think that getting a XML to DOM component that is JavaScript

[Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-24 Thread Ged Wed
Hey all, whats the support for doing a web based open office ? Ajax based with a restful JSON or XML model. 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. It also

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Meeks
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

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-24 Thread Ged Wed
On 24 January 2011 16:03, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: 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

Re: [Libreoffice] web based libre office

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ged, So - thank you for your nice ideas :-) we can setup a list for this discussion: crack-smoking-re-write-everyhing-in-javascr...@tdf.org or somesuch ? :-) On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:17 +0100, Ged Wed wrote: well you gotta start sometime and technology is on our side.