From: Chris Lee (motocross@motocrosscanada.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 11:16:22 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?
>
>For a school project i did setup a PHP based web frontend which used
>Abiword to convert files to other formats, particularly html for viewing
>online.
>
>> It seems to me that this might be handy in heterogenous LANS,
>> particularly when thin client computing is desired, but also when a
>
>Abiword is very small, you can actually cram in on a floppy disk.
>A think client would more likely run a normal copy of Abiword on the
>server and use a remote display rather than messing about with making it a
>web appliction.
>
>You should probably take a look at AbiMoz (by Oeone), which turns abiword
>into a mozilla plugin. http://abimoz.mozdev.org
>
>> mix of Linux, Unix, Windows and Macs are used. Updating fonts on all
>
>Abiword runs on almost all those platforms anyway, Hub is working on a Mac
>port. Abiword win32 even runs reasonably well on Wine+linux. It really
>does not make sense to try and beat a round peg into a square hole.
>
>> 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.
>
>Font issues are no longer much of an issue on the 1.1 branch.
>
>> 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.
>
>I could be done, but it does not really make sense to do things the way
>you suggest.
>You really should think about what goal you are really trying to acheive
>rather than all the ways you could do things.
>
>Patches welcome, sponsor a developer, help write documentation ... etc.
Wouldn't an Abiword browser plug in would also make a terrific editor for
weblog and CMS websites
Chris
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