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 > Regards, > tpn > > Tom Needham > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
