On 12 October 2011 10:35, Sebastian Sauer <m...@dipe.org> wrote: > On 09/30/2011 07:04 PM, Jos van den Oever wrote: >> >> On Friday, September 30, 2011 18:48:59 PM Sebastian Sauer wrote: >>> >>> On 09/30/2011 06:17 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Anything you do in such development is constrained by WAC unless you >>>>> agree to break compatibility and inject binary lib - then you'd have >>>>> to deploy it to other systems too (but the why to skip native Qt >>>>> programs?) >>>> >>>> I don't agree. I think it's perfectly possible to write a full-featured >>>> office suite in html + javascript. Google has already done that. >>> >>> google docs is not even close to be a full-featured office suite. It's >>> an extended text-editor >>> on top of a relational db. The gdata-API is insufficient for anything >>> more complex. But then >>> that is also an advantage. They don't try to be feature-complete with >>> MSOffice/OpenOffice/Calligra >>> but only offer an online (and since some time even offline) richtext >>> editor/calculator/presenter. >>> >>> But yes, I think that it would be possible too :-) >> >> There are things that are simply impossible or very hard even in HTML5. >> For >> exmple consider positioning of draw:frame in a brower. The anchor can be >> relative to paragraph, to character or to page. This distinction is not so >> easy to do in CSS. I give this example since I've studied that recently. > > I did study WebOdf a bit but now I wonder why only CSS? I mean why > not some Javscript-magic that does the positioning?
Maybe a no-go is related to 'text on a <canvas/> is not selectable' as Jos noted. Or, one would want to split the text to smaller chunks but then again the problem would be in data loss when e.g. I select and copy contents of such multiple blocks. Just a guess. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
