Re: Web front end -- crazy?

From: Colin Mattoon (cjm2@lewiston.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 21:07:40 EST

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    Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

    >
    >
    > 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
    >
    >
    I'm wrestling with this concept a bit -- could you elaborate what you
    meant by "local document?" This probably sounds stupid, but I was
    envisioning Abiword's text entry area displayed in something analogous
    to a text entry
    field on a web page -- with the "buttons" arrayed above that field
    similar to a Cups web interface. There would need to be some means to
    save every few seconds by transmitting to the server, but I wouldn't
    have thought there would need to be an actual local document.

    If you received a document from some one else, you would upload to the
    server via FTP, and if you wanted a local copy as a backup, or to send
    as an e-mail attachment, you could download it as well. But normally,
    the document would be created, stored, edited and printed on the
    server computer in the scenario I envision.

    Later,
    Colin Mattoon
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