Hi,
> Interesting feature: I like the way GMail treats attachments. We could > > have something similar in the attachment list. Each supported file > > format will have some links next to the default download link, for > > previewing as HTML, downloading as PDF, converting to the equivalent > > concurrent format. For example. we could have: > > > > [doc] QuarterlyReport.doc ^1.2^ [preview in browser] [download as PDF] > > [download as .odt] > > Posted by [John Smith] five minutes ago > > > > [ods] ExpenseReport.ods ^1.1^ [preview in browser] [download as PDF] > > [download as .xls] > > Posted by [Jane Smith] yesterday > > > > However, we should carefully consider the implications, since users > > could expect this to be a perfect feature they can trust, and data loss > > could occur when the transformation fails partially. > > > > I like the Gmail-like idea too and it would indeed be a cool addition. > > Another interesting thing to do would be to let the user export any wiki > page in the Office format of his / her choice. Instead of uploading a > document, why not simply export an existing wiki page? > > If that's can be done it could be useful, I think many people would like to > be able to export wiki pages in the .doc or .odt format. > Yup, these are definite possibilities. I wish if I could spend a week on this ;) There was a university student working on a office-exporter project for XWiki but not sure of it's status. I'll point him into this thread and see. Thanks. - Asiri > > Guillaume > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > - Asiri > > > > > > PS: It would take about 2-3 days to fully implement and test the > > > application. > > > > -- > > Sergiu Dumitriu > > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > -- > Guillaume Lerouge > Product Manager - XWiki SAS > Skype: wikibc > Twitter: glerouge > http://guillaumelerouge.com/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
