| Dear all,
Alvaro pointed out to me that LibreOffice builds now to webasm. There is a thread about it in Hacker News (see link below). Of course this, as our attempt, is just a proof-of-concept, since most of the UI has to be revisited to be useful as a web application (due to limitations in the filesystem, different UI context, etc...). If you are curious below you find also a link to a talk about the Web port of AutoCAD. They had an old/large C++ codebase and it is quite insightful to see how they managed to have a web version.
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Subject: Re: Lo on wasm
Date: 17. February 2022 at 13:51:49 GMT
Thanks!
I'm looking actively into having TeXmacs on the browser, still many technical problems to solve but I guess on the long run it could be done. I need to separate better the UI code, since on the browser the ideal way to run the typesetter and core is in a separate thread while communicating with a _javascript_ layer which takes care of the UI with the browser API. This require some preliminary work, I guess this could also be applied to the Qt version since would make the core more independent of the UI library.
There is an interesting talk on Autocad and how they adapted they codebase to the web.
Max
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