[Owncloud] Suggestions

[Robin Appelman]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:31, Andrei Nistor <coder.tux at ceata.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 July 2010 19:56:27 Robin Appelman wrote:
>> We don't actually have to worry about TinyMCE, some other guys already
>> implemented an odf viewer/editor (editing thing not quite done) in
>> pure javascript, we will probably start using that.
>
> Is ofwebkit the implementation you're talking about?
> http://kdedevelopers.org/node/4253
Yes, I saw a short presentation on it today, seems to work nice already
>
>> And for
>> collaborative editing on the same document we will probably let git or
>> something do the merging between 2 odf files, so that should work with
>> both people using the webfrontend and people using
>> webdav+koffice/oo.org.
>
> I don't think git is the right tool for realtime collaborative editing. I
> would suggest implementing the infinote protocol [0], which would make it
> compatible with kobby[1] and gobby[2]. I don't know if it's feasible to
> implement this in PHP as I'm not really a PHP programmer, but if it's possible
> it would be really nice.
Yes it would be really nice, but the last time I looked at it the
documentation was incomplete and the protocol seems complicated, so it
won't be an easy task.

webODF+git will do for near-realtime simulair to gdocs