Re: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

If client-side is required, is there
any reason it can not be embedded in web pages as script rather than a
binary download that must be installed? If such embedding is done by reference,
even a large set of script ends up being downloaded once and cached.

Rich Thompson
WSRP TC Chair

Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>

05/19/2004 04:54 PM

To	karl.best@oasis-open.org
cc	chairs@lists.oasis-open.org, Jeff Lomas <Jeff.Lomas@oasis-open.org>
Subject	Re: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system

I'm using subversion, and I can see ways of working
with it without 
playing with annoying plugins.

What do you need to do that requires a browser plugin?

-matt
On May 19, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Karl F. Best wrote:

> Chairs:
>
> We've gone through the scheduled alpha test of the doc mgmt system
> without much result, so anyone who is interested in taking a look
at 
> this please let me know.
>
> There's a couple of specific questions that we need the answer to
> before we can proceed much further with development. Just to review,
> we've tentatively decided on Subversion (SVN) as the platform upon
> which we will build our doc mgmt system. But there's some additional
> functionality that we need to build on top. As much of this 
> functionality would reside in the client, we need to decide how to
> build this.
>
> So... specific questions:
>
> 1. What proportion of the users of the doc mgmt system (TC members,
> editors, chairs, etc.) will be using non-Windows clients, and what
> kind? (Mac, Linux, etc.)
>
> 2. For Windows users, what proportion of users *do not* have the 
> ability/permission to install a plugin client on their computers?
> (Some company IT policies don't allow this.)
>
> Based on the answers to the above, our developing a multi-platform
> client applet may be the best solution, but this would also cost more
> resources to do. There's an existing open source plugin that we could
> start with, but it's Windows only and we don't know if everyone has
> the option of using it.
>
> thanks for your input.
> -Karl
>
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