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LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by lokedhs »

syrusakbary wrote: post #2

Note that it will download around ~300Mb of data directly to your browser, so it might take a bit to load from slow connections. Here's the related video from FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lotech_lowa/

Even with a fast connection, it takes a very long time. I'm guessing the site is overloaded as the peak was a few tens of Mb/s, and generally much slower.

Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by FinalBriefing »

est wrote: post #8

- natively - in the browser Are there any non-native thing that runs in a browser?

"Notebooks" like Jupyter, or Github Spaces and VS Code for the web, where a lot of the processing runs on a remote server, and the result is displayed in the browser.

Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by rtpg »

syrusakbary wrote: post #2

Note that it will download around ~300Mb of data directly to your browser, so it might take a bit to load from slow connections. Here's the related video from FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lotech_lowa/

Might be worth changing the link from the direct link to this video, given that 300 megs question.

Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by nicksf »

kingcharles wrote: post #4

Wow, things have come full circle. I built and launched a browser-based office suite in about 1998 called Office Wherever that used a Java Applet. VCs laughed us out of every meeting.. "No-one will put their private documents on the Internet! You're mad!" WHO'S MAD NOW, HUH? Huh? Huh...

That sounds interesting. Your concept was ahead of its time.

Do you have screenshots or a video demo to share?

Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by ceasesurthinko »

syrusakbary wrote: post #2

Note that it will download around ~300Mb of data directly to your browser, so it might take a bit to load from slow connections. Here's the related video from FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lotech_lowa/

And it's throttled too, took me ~8 min on a 400mbps connection to download those 300mb of data.

And it doesn't cache the download either, so refreshing the page forces you to download the entire thing again.

Re: LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

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Post by jack_pp »

ceasesurthinko wrote: post #18
syrusakbary wrote: post #2

Note that it will download around ~300Mb of data directly to your browser, so it might take a bit to load from slow connections. Here's the related video from FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lotech_lowa/

And it's throttled too, took me ~8 min on a 400mbps connection to download those 300mb of data. And it doesn't cache the download either, so refreshing the page forces you to download the entire thing again.

took me < 35s on a 300mbps connection from europe.
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