[Owncloud] [ITC] WebODF

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 01.12.2011, at 11:09, Michiel de Jong wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'd like to let you know, that I'll plan to develop an extension to the files app: WebODF.
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> With that creating/editing of ODF documents in the browser will be possible.
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> Demo of WebODF:
> http://webodf.org/demo/
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> Anybody else working on this topic.
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> 
> yes! We are creating Libre Docs. It's based on etherpad-lite, the UNG project, and webodf. It is an unhosted web app, which means the data storage is not "inside" the website (on the application host), but "outside" (on the user's remote storage).
> 
> ownCloud supports remoteStorage (although i need to get round to upgrading it to the new spec), so with LibreDocs.org, launching in March 2012, you have like a Google Docs that stores its data on your ownCloud using cross-origin AJAX, right from your browser.
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> For more info see http://unhosted.org/ - we will start publishing news about Libre Docs on our mailing list, probably today or tomorrow. but since i saw this thread, i thought i would let you know already :)


Sounds cool.
I´m looking forward to hear more about that.

But I still think that a "native" ownCloud App for editing ODF is also useful.


Cheers
Frank


Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek at kde.org