Calligra Words mission statement and roadmap (1st draft)

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 15 November 2011 11:45, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:
> 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.

That is great start already!
Another handy tool for this development is: writing code snippets even
before works on exposing the API start at full speed.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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