On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:13:44 +0100, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/20/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So on this new office suite of today where people do most of their work
on
web applications, should we all do a Web version of OOo?
A web version of OOo would be awesome. There are a few attempts at this
(an
online office suite) that are already out there (Thinkfree Office, EI
Office, Office Hero) - they are all mostly out of Asia, so their English
interface isn't that great. And none of them are from huge companies
(like
Sun, IBM, Microsoft, or Corel), so the development on the backend isn't
that
I know we recently asked them about opendocuments to this people and they
actually said that if they had a filter they will do it..... naturally we
supply them with all they needed:
http://www.writely.com/
great. ThinkFree Office may even be based on an older version of OOo - it
uses some of the same names for the different modes. But none of these
are
open source. A web-based OOo that ran in Java or Flash would be great.
Completely cross-platform, and would work on any machine with internet
access - even PDAs, PocketPCs, cell phones, Blackberries, and Palms. A
web-based OOo would solve a *heck* of a lot of problems. It would, of
course, cause a few others, though.
Then don't use OpenOffice.org the important thing here is the
opendocuments really. If you have a completly new slim Web word processor
that support opendocuments you will have the best of both worlds.
Should we blog
instead of producing documents?
Depends on the audience, sometimes yes, most times no. But you can
produce
printable documents from an online editor. The printing would be handled
by
the browser. You can save to different file types from an online editor
as
well, Adobe Reader inside of a web browser is proof of that - and it's
just
a reader - not an editor.
Should we have more compatibility with our
Cellphones and PDA and have bluetooth native support?
That would be nice. A web-based version would solve that, (except for the
bluetooth thing, I don't understand how an office suite is bluetooth
enabled
- isn't that an operating system thing?).
It is and is not, having an option that sends by email could also have a
plug-in that sends by bluetooth. I think you see this on Outlooks plug-ins
for syncing your palm.
In the web-based version, the
server would be handling some of the load - especially the HD space - so
you
wouldn't need to downsize OOo as much. It can still be streamlined - no
doubt, but the size wouldn't hurt portable devices as much if it were
available online.
--
-Chad Smith
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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