[Owncloud] Rich text editor and document collaboration ideas

[Jan Sommer]

Hi,

what do you think about Etherpad lite. It's based on node.js.
I used pads in several occasions and think they are quite handy.

Best regards,

    Jan

Am 07.11.2011, 21:25 Uhr, schrieb Tom Needham <needham.thomas at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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....
>
> Regards,
> tpn
>
> Tom Needham