[DLSLUG-Discuss] Metadot - or Other Ideas

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 17:04, Ted Roche wrote:

> Ah! I was hoping you were using the more portal-forum-like aspects.
> Live web-based file editing is using ActiveX in IE to edit MS Office
> documents, isn't it? Proprietary technologies editing proprietary
> formats in a proprietary browser, isn't it?

Can somebody describe the benefits of editing a spreadsheet in a web  
browser?  Is it just the ease of not having to save the file to a  
folder?

Besides WebDAV, you could probably accomplish something similar with  
a file://path/to/file.xls URL to a NFS share.

Is it live multi-user editing of the same document?

Note: last time I looked in SBS all users had the same permissions  
(everything was 777 in unix parlance), which is a factor for many  
businesses under HIPAA or SarBox.

-Bill


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