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