[DLSLUG-Discuss] Metadot - or Other Ideas

[Josh Sled]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:29 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 17:04, Ted Roche wrote:
> 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.

Not needing to install a spreadsheet, webdav/nfs stack, configure either
webdav or the nfs share (on either the client or server side), or
resolve the problems in a multi-machine file-URL space.

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

(Unknown versions of) Excel seem to handle this reasonably well, in my
recent experience with a small engineering team schedule/status
spreadsheet.

Of course, a (web) server-/service-based solution can handle
collaboration in interesting ways ... but then so can any client/server
system, though it's easier when the server's in control.

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