From: Colin Mattoon (cjm2@lewiston.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 01:41:25 EST
We hear a lot about web enabled applications. Has anyone investigated
the concept of Abiword running as a web application on a LAN web
server, accessed through an https login from a broswer?
It seems to me that this might be handy in heterogenous LANS,
particularly when thin client computing is desired, but also when a
mix of Linux, Unix, Windows and Macs are used. Updating fonts on all
the clients wouldn't be an issue, and font servers wouldn't have to
run. A mix of X3 and X4 wouldn't matter. You could log in from any
client running any OS provided it has a graphical browser and supports
https.
Printing could be set up to let the user direct output to print
servers located anywhere. If you want to keep a copy of a document on
your local machine as a backup, or to share via e-mail, the "Abiword
server" could include a secure FTP server for both downloads and
uploads.
This probably isn't an issue for many users, but in networks where
appliances, terminals, and many operating systems must co-exist, it
could be useful. One server to maintain/upgrade, no concern about
client compatibility.
Any thoughts? Most likely it can't be done, but I'm curious.
Later,
Colin Mattoon
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