On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:57 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:51:11 -0500, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Most people are probably aware that Google started to test an online > > spreadsheet programme several months ago. > > > > It seems that M$ has moved to meet the challenge: http://ideas.live.com/ > > > > So, while Sun / OpenOffice plod on catching up on office services, the > > titans are moving the whole contest to a different level. > > > > Online services seem to be reaching further than I for one have been > > thinking: New computer OS runs on your Web browser - > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/9578 > > > > There have been inquiries on the users' list and in the forum about > > online office services. > > > > Perhaps plans are already being hatched? If not, why not? > > This has been constantly talked about while is true that weba applications > are a buzz word. The OpenOffice.org community development is based on > mantaining and extending the UNO framework. > > This framework will be arguably dificult to move to a HTML toolkit. Most > OOo people focus on having compatibility with this suites thanks to the > adoption of OpenDocuments. > > A gap in between is webservices and how can OOo can operate as desktop > client for this new web applications.
Agreed, its a resources issue. There are not unlimited resources. OOo has to decide what it can afford to achieve. Since the Google seem committed to ODF we should get web based applications that interoperate reliably with OOo so why reinvent the wheel? Let some others pay for some of the development costs that free up office productivity. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
