On 07.11.2011, at 21:25, Tom Needham wrote:

> 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.

Great idea.
This would be awesome. :-)


> 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

Not sure about that.
This is only the standard LibreOffice with a html gtk backend. Not a very 
promising architecture. 

> 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.

Very cool. Indeed.


> 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....


Very cool. Looking forward to this idea. :-)


Cheers
Frank



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> tpn
> 
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Frank Karlitschek
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