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Versions of LibreOffice for iOS, Android, browser coming
- olsonjeffery 15y agoAlso mentioned in the article is a prototype for a browser-based version of LibreOffice (there's a link to a .webm demo video). What's interesting about this, from what I've gathered, is the technology: recently released in GTK+ 3.2, is the Broadway system (not much in the way of docs on the net, sadly). It appears to amount to a new backend for GTK+ to draw to (other, more well known backends include X11 and Wayland). In this case, the Broadway system exposes a web server that a browser can load to "access" the app that is exposed. Drawing, in the browser, happens via canvas + web-sockets. So, this brings up the question: What's their (LibreOffice's) story for this, if they try to take the product live? It seems like it'd amount to a massive, web-scale vm/server farm to run client instances. In the form presented in the article, this is more like a Citrix deployment than an actual webapp. Whether one prefers one or the other is a matter of personal taste, I suppose (I think there's something to like in the somewhat spartan experience of Google Docs vs. MS Word or LibreOffice Writer).