WebODF - Render office documents in a browser

http://webodf.org/

by bergie • 15 years ago

92 12 15 years ago

webodf.org

anon_d• 15 years ago

shudder

simonw• 15 years ago

There should be a prominent link to a live demo on that site.

Edit: Found it: http://webodf.org/demo/ - should be a lot more prominent though, it's linked to in the footer as the "Gallery".

azakai2• 15 years ago

Does this work properly for you? It just says "loading [...]" when I click on any of the documents there.

simonbrown• 15 years ago

Works for me in Chrome on Windows 7. I can't click the hyperlink in DanskTest01.odt, though.

guruz• 15 years ago

Haha, did you just see that in the lightning talk at the Berlin Desktop Summit?

Maro• 15 years ago

For this to be really useful it has to render existing ODF documents as rendered by OpenOffice.

azakai2• 15 years ago

If there is really a need for perfect rendering of ODF documents, the best approach is probably to compile the relevant part of OpenOffice. Writing a 100% complete ODF implementation from scratch is very hard.

Someone• 15 years ago

I wasn't aware that OpenOffice is the gold standard w.r.t. ODF rendering, or even that having such a standard makes sense. I would think that, if you want to ensure your document renders the same everywhere, the right approach is to create a .pdf or .png document.

kraemate• 15 years ago

While this is cool, i'm surprised by its lack of features : no real editing, the rendering is nowhere near openoffice standards, and the documents just "look different".

Also, did it really take all this while for someone to come up with javascript apis for ODF? Or are there existing tools out there? Surprising that there are no full featured web-based ODF editors even when the standard is completely DOM based and open, and quite old already. How hard is compiling a bunch of XML (what ODF is) to some HTML anyway?

contextfree• 15 years ago

"how hard is compiling a bunch of XML ..." - sorry to pick on you, but "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Being built on XML, which is mostly just a syntax, doesn't really say anything about the semantics of display and editing. It's only slightly removed from saying that it should be easy to compile any programming language into any other because they're all just ASCII text files.

base• 15 years ago

Some parts of the ODF like tables and equations can be very complex to be converted to HTML and even impossible in some cases unless it's displayed as svg or something similar. Handling the image conversions might also be impossible with javascript.

homemadejam• 15 years ago

Yet another reason why people should be leaving behind Microsoft's .doc(x) formats!

WebODF - Render office documents in a browser

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