Calligra Words mission statement and roadmap (1st draft)

[Sebastian Sauer]

On 11/15/2011 04:05 AM, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 09:54 PM, Adam Pigg wrote:
>> On a similar note, imagine the possibility of embedding JS in a 
>> document, and defining a function such as
>> function calligra_version()  { return "2.6"; }
>>
>> then, having some kind of user field that contained 
>> '=calligra_version()' that would display the appropriate content/
>
> In my opinion we should lobby for that to become part of a future ODF 
> release.
>
> So far the only way to get such dynamic functionality in is using 
> macros. But macros suck and
> to my knowledge there functionality is not really specified in the 
> specs. Since this days we have
> so many different Javascript-implementations around + they allow to 
> sandbox (unlike python
> for exampl) + they are light and fast (unlike Java) and are already a 
> de facto standard in HTML
> it would make sense to gt Javascript into ODF as official 
> "scripting-language". The hard work
> would then be to define API/functionality exposed by the applications 
> so the Javascript can
> do something with the application.

I just created 
http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Proposal_for_scripting_in_ODF for that.

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