Re: AbiMoz or Abiword mixed with XUL.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Mathieu Leduc-Hamel wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:22:36 -0400
> From: Mathieu Leduc-Hamel <arrak@arrak.org>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: AbiMoz or Abiword mixed with XUL.
>
>
> With the fake announcement of GoogleOffice yesterday I decided to
> search on the internet for any product that would act like a
> Wordprocessor in the browser.

Be interesting to see what if anything comes out of that (and I'm still
not entirely sure what the IBM Workspaces version of OpenOffice.org is all
about).

> I discover AbiMoz, made by a canadian company: Oeone. It's a XUL
> graphical interface made on Abiword. You can have the details at
> http://abimoz.mozdev.org/.
>
> But it seems that this project is dead.
>
> Is there anybody know what happened?

The XUL bit didn't have much to do with it, essentially it was Mozilla
with embedded Abiword. The AbiXUL page on mozdev.org was never really
used.

> Could it be take out from death?

I think it might have been merged back into abiword but I forget,
certainly they were kind enough to provide the code at some point. There
are various components which allow application embedding inside Mozilla
and Abiword is Bobono enabled. So if you are a developer with some time
to spare you should be able to figure out how to get it going again
without too much trouble.

> I might try to make it work tonight but I don't know if it will be
> compatible with the latest Abiword and mozilla versions.

should probably work, might take some tweaking though.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Oct 5 20:45:30 2005