Mmmh. What about extensions for existing browsers ? You talk about creating a browser without even a differenciation factor which makes the idea irrelevant. And I'm not even talking about the resources as some of you might have mentioned. But on the other side, browser extensions might actually be a good idea, especially for Firefox and Chrome. Opening an odt directly in you browser via a LibreOffice extension for example ? -- Florian Monfort Marketing Apprentice at Red Hat Marketing Team at The Document Foundation Student at France Business School +33 6 58 97 15 61 <a href="mailto:florian.monfort@gmail.com">florian.monfort@gmail.com</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 9, 2012 8:12 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Yifan web based support is already in the works. Michael Meeks is conducting that work, but its not ready for use yet. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Yi Fan Jiang <<a href="mailto:yfjiang@suse.com">yfjiang@suse.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Randolph, > > Unfortunately my first response is NO. > > The development might be for fun, but I didn't see a persuasive > reason of why we need one browser in a office suite. IMHO, in that case > we seem not to improve foreseeable usability, functionality or > productivity > to the suite, will we? > > Instead, in an other way, I'd rather to put such an effort in improving > Libreoffice by put it into a browser, while obviously it is another thing > to > discuss. > > Best wishes, > Yifan > > >>> "Randolph D." <<a href="mailto:rdohm321@gmail.com">rdohm321@gmail.com</a>> 11/09/12 5:05 AM >>> > Dear all, > after some talks with some board members, the request rised to include > more members and developers in the idea of adding a browser to Libreoffice. > We know this needs time and work, but would not be impossible to add it to > the installer and create a place to be for it, and see, how the community > reacts to it and requests more interaction. This security orientated webkit > browser would be a good codebasis for that: > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dooble/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dooble/</a> > Any pro or cons from anyone? No person in the office works today without > the internet, the consequence is, an office suite needs or could provide an > open source browser. Anyone interested to test or join the idea or > recommendations for the steps to plan? > Regards Randolph > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to <a href="mailto:discuss%2Bhelp@documentfoundation.org">discuss+help@documentfoundation.org</a> Problems? <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/" target="_blank">http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/</a> Posting guidelines + more: <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette" target="_blank">http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette</a> List archive: <a href="http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/" target="_blank">http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/</a> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted </blockquote></div>