Hi everyone,
Had some interesting discussion in the irc channel tonight about a rich text
editor and the possibility of real time collaboration just like google docs.
Just though I would share a few projects I came across that could be really
helpful in bringing these features to owncloud.
elad661 in irc mentioned that LibreOffice are now developing a web version in
HTML5. There is a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_0_ojrUrQ
elad also mentioned the backend behind google docs' real time collaboartion
which is 'infinote'. After some googling I came across a javascript
implementation of this: http://www.jinfinote.com/. Ok, so it's in really early
stages but it looks very promising. One downfall however is that it relies on a
backend programmed in C.
So while looking for alternatives I found a project called 'MobWrite' :
http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/. MobWrite is good because it relies
on just a single php file for the backend. MobWrite is also a bit further along
with development.
Icewind also just added that an advantage of infinote is that there are desktop
clients that can integrate with it given a url of the server. One idea is to
use mobwrite by default as it can be included with ownCloud without any fuss
and then offer infinote as an 'app' so that desktop clients can be used.
Anyway, if I get time this week I will try and proptype collaboration with
mobwrite in the current text editor but there is lots to do regarding
sharing/users/permissions....
Regards,
tpn
Tom Needham
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