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Andrew_nenakhovlast Friday at 10:41 PM1 replyview on HN

I tried really hard to use Collabora 'web' solution. It is unusable.

For those who don't know: it renders the whole LibreOffice interface on server and passes it to you. Lots of issues with hotkeys on non-standard layouts (I use Dvorak), with language switching, with mouse behavior, with clipboard, ugh. Of course it is hungry for resources. No. This isn't the way.


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wizzwizz4yesterday at 4:52 PM

Are you sure that's not just a VNC-based demo of the desktop version of Collabora Office?

I wouldn't be too surprised if their web version was like that (given how long ago the first version came out), except Nextcloud uses a Collabora-based system for its online editing, and I doubt they'd go with something like that.

There are online ODT editors (e.g. https://webodf.org/demo/ci/wodotexteditor-0.5.9/localeditor....), so even if Collabora's is bad, it wouldn't be too hard to make a better one.