On 12/2/05, John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Plugin both need a local installation of OOo, they just redirect the > > created window into a browser window instead of having it placed on the > > desktop. They do not render OOo documents by themselves. > > Ok. But is that a problem? IIRC, that's how the Acrobat Reader and other > plugins work as well. >
You are technically right - that's how the Adobe Reader works. However, the Adobe Reader isn't a 50 MB + download, and a massive 100 MB + install, and doesn't take a lot of time to load or a lot of RAM to run. If there was a *SMALL* ODF-Reader that could work like the Adobe Reader plugin, that would work. but having to have the whole office suite on the computer kinda defeats the purpose of viewing the file in the browser. Instaed of comparing the OOo browser plugins to Adobe Reader, it would be more like if you had to have the entire Adobe Creative Suite, or at least the Adobe Acrobat running in order to view a PDF in the browser. AbiWord is about the smallest thing out there that renders ODF files - and that's only Word Processing files- not spreadsheets or presentationsor anything, and to my knowledge, it doesn't have a browser plugin. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
