Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 19:04, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to see the desktop effort here at LibO and the developers at Apache > start on a new web based OOo even if that meant starting from scratch and > writing it in Javascript. Seems to me that without a web based version both > LibreO and OOo could become irrelevant anyway. Since LibO is already solidly > in the desktop groove it makes much more efficient use of resources for > Apache OOo to go to the web and also fits the Apache culture better. Files > would be interchangeable between desktop and web, 100% through odf. OK, it's > a big ask but this is probably the only opportunity that will arise for such > a big shift in strategy. This strategy would mean anyone needing OOo now > has LibO for continuity while the web version is being created so if it > takes a couple of years it is not a disaster. Better to spend time on long > term sustainability than patching up and sorting out code that really > duplicates what is already available at LibO. Ok IBM symphony might be an > issue in that scenario but the project is not there simply to support that > product and I see wider and higher priorities.
If I'm not mistaken, the SC sees LibreOffice as remaining a firmly desktop-based suite, although they are thinking about a complementary Web-based component of some kind. I must admit that I'd like the software to remain on my computer without me hanging from strings rooted somewhere on the Web or in a cloud (not even a local one). -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
