France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)
France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)
Interesting: Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French π«π·π₯(DINUM) and German π©πͺπ₯¨ governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands π³π±π§). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs...
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Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?
20 0 ReplyBro has been sleeping under a rock for the past 10 years.
47 0 ReplyFor offline editing there's already LibreOffice
7 0 ReplyLibreOffice does everything I need it to and there's no need for anything else.
1 0 ReplyDoesn't do collaborative online editing and that seems what this is about. But there are foss alternatives already, collabora/nextcloud, cryptpad etc.
2 0 ReplyWell yeah, that's why my parent comment said its good for offline editing. I don't need collaborative online editing.
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Itβs definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because itβs easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
36 0 Replyitβs easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.
7 0 ReplyThey also work on android and IOS.
I can imagine it'll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is
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A bit of both I guess
Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe
And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better
10 0 ReplyI guess I don't mind if I can self host the server. If I can't I have no interest in touching it.
4 0 ReplyFor sure! self hosting is the way
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no office software requires admin eighter unless you want to install it for all users
1 0 Replyit's often a pain to install in computers that don't have it by default, like school computers or similar, but alright, didn't know it!
+some people don't like installing stuff
+you can't collaborate with other people on the default LibreOffice I iirc
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A good web app is awesome!
But the big ones usually wants to have a native app so that they can scan your whole computer and so on. This is good news.
5 0 Replywhich is fine if you deny network connections for it with a per-process firewall. but with a webapp you can never be sure that they won't snatch your documents.
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