Re: Web front end -- crazy?

From: Chris Lee (motocross@motocrosscanada.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 11:16:22 EST

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    >> 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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