still active or dead?

[petrk94]

Hello,

I would like to know whether WebODF is still active or already dead due the last changes are 3-4 years old.
Hope you can give me answer.
Thanks

[vandenoever]

The software still works in modern browsers, but it is not maintained by KO GmbH.

[petrk94]

@vandenoever do you know why its not longer maintained?
I have seen the company is in Germany, in theory not far away from me :D
Before some time it was still active used, why its now not longer used, even the design could get a fresh up, I could make something with the css, but not with js due lack of knowledge in this.
Is there another repo alternative or a maintainer who is caring about this?

[vandenoever]

The company is not active any more. You are right that the UI is a bit old fashioned. It is modular so you could add a different UI in. There is no-one currently active on this.

[akuckartz]

For web-editing of ODF/ODT-documents LibreOffice Online might be an alternative. See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online

[petrk94]

@akuckartz
currently Im in different projects working, so Im too busy for this, but I will keep it in mind and take a look on it to investigate/update a later time at least the css file. So we get a modern look ;)
Its a shame that there are no more active developer working and increasing the functionality for the modern web browser technologies :/

@akuckartz
Its as I see developed by https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora_online_demo/
not sure how far the development is by LibreOffice itself.

[vandenoever]

@petrk94 LibreOffice is improved and maintained by a community, the Document Foundation. It consists of individuals and commercial companies. Collabora leads the LibreOffice Online work. As far as I know all code goes to the LibreOffice project.

[nothingismagick]

It seems there is a community edition:
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/community-en/understanding-the-differences-between-libreoffice-online-code-and-collabora-online/

[nothingismagick]

I just found a freaking awesome reference project here: https://nlnet.nl/odf/

Here are some curated references from that page:
http://odfplugfest.org/
http://www.opendocumentformat.org/
https://github.com/kpmy/odf -> http://b.ocsf.in/odf/
http://recipes.opendocsociety.org/
http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/

• Somewhat related:
  https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/online/tree/docker
  https://hub.docker.com/r/collabora/code/

From the 2017 Plugfest

• https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Rome/Slides/libocon2.pdf
• https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Rome/Slides/libocon2017hipsterbingo.pdf
• https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Rome/Slides/Collabora-in-Nextcloud.pdf

[nothingismagick]

And this is a rather interesting alternative approach (using markdown)

• https://stackedit.io/app

[cukabeka]

Interesting discussion going on here. Actually I've been searching for a solution to edit ODT files on ownCloud/nextcloud in the browser. I hoped that this would make for a browser-based alternative solution to GoogleDocs. But there doesn't seem to exist anything like that yet.

[thz]

The "Documents" app in ownCloud 6 was based on WebODF and ODF processing was completely client-side. I think these days it is based on some server side components.

[deleolajide]

I am working on a new project that uses WebODF and KoType
See https://github.com/inspired-futures/akowe

[cukabeka]

Wow, akowe looks promising. However I don't get how this could work to use it with owncloud/nextcloud. Any idea?

[deleolajide]

However I don't get how this could work to use it with owncloud/nextcloud. Any idea?

It will work with any cloud based web server under the sun (pun intended). It uses static web pages. Just host the docs folder from a webserver or simply let GitHub do it for you by cloning the akowe repo, enabling GitHub Pages and optionally configure a custom domain name if you don't like myname.github.io

[denis-migdal]

For information, I started to work on a sheet viewer/editor (client-side only) :

My goal is to "re-implement" LibreOffice features in order to produce interactive examples for spreadsheet courses.

Please be aware that :

• I do not support .ods importation (though I can offer student projects on it).
• This isn't intended to be used to produce documents, I only use it for interactive examples. Therefore, this isn't optimized.
• I will not implement all of Libre Office features, only the main ones.
• I think I might add graphs, as well as macro.

If you are interested, let me know and I'll put it in its own github repo.
For example, if you want, you could import an .ods using WebODF, then fill the data into my demonstrator.

[denis-migdal]

A quick update:

• I decided to handle ODS importations (took me less than 1h to have some basic features).
• I implemented Libre Office toolbar (not fully/perfectly implemented though).

I do not think I'll make more updates here. Contact me if you want to use it, then I'll put it in its own repo.
You can see lot of live examples here (sorry it's French, and I'm still working on it) : https://denis-migdal.github.io/Cours/dist/dev/pages/R1-01/CM/CM1/

Importation of a .ods :

Implementation of LO toolbar :