From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 18:24:13 EST
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:11, cjm2@lewiston.com wrote:
> When I first posed the question, I knew there might be insurmountable technical
> obstacles. And I knew it wasn't something that everyone needed or would use. I
> didn't know the font problem was taken care of in the 1.1 branch, and I'll check
> that out.
>
> However, there are some benefits to centralized administration and execution in
> heterogenous networks. For example, not all thin clients boot from the network,
> and not all networks that include thin clients are exclusively used for thin
> client computing. It also isn't always practical or possible to meet
> dependancies so that all users can run the same version of applications. This
> applies to browser plugins just as much as it does to Abiword itself.
>
> There are ways of getting around it, but it can be a problem to provide one
> server-centric solution for execution, file storage/exchange, and printing when
> workstations may encompass everything from Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux,
> MacOS -- and different versions of each. Http and browsers are common to
> virtually all graphical operating systems. If it was possible to run Abiword as
> a web enabled application from a browser, then the architecture, OS type, or
> version number, on the clients wouldn't matter, and upgrading Abiword,
> companywide, could be a matter of upgrading one Intranet Web server.
> \
This really is a hell of work.
What you have to do to recast the abiword graphics class to export HTML
in a way that keeps a one to one correspondence between text in the web
browser and pixels within abiword. You also have to rewrite or write
browser that can continuously update and reflow html incrementally in a
local document.
Cheers
Martin
> Later,
> Colin
> Mattoon
>
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