[Gllug] Serverside Word editing

Richard Cottrill richard_c at tpg.com.au
Tue Feb 1 14:34:57 UTC 2005


Luke Hopkins said:
> I have reasonable control over the clients. Formatting changes are not a
> major issue (ie. Some loss of existing formatting would cause no
> problems). Changing the format from Word .docs to something else is not
> an option simply because of the nature of the general public.

What about using a Java VNC/X11 client (RealVNC/WeirdX/etc...) in the
browser and OpenOffice (or even Word under WINE) hosted on the server.
Clearly this will require some heavy lifting on the server end; but maybe
that's ok for you... My 2p.

Richard

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