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ethersheet-collective / EtherSheet

Online spreadsheet collaboration in real time using node.js. Similar to etherpad-lite but its a spreadsheet!
https://ethersheet.org
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Possibale to be based on jquery.sheet or handsontable #26

Closed liuliming2008 closed 9 years ago

liuliming2008 commented 9 years ago

TO avoid some UI work, like https://github.com/raphaelschroiff/NodeSpreadsheet Only a sugguest without research

JohnMcLear commented 9 years ago

@liuliming2008 Maybe do some research and let us know if it's feasible?

liuliming2008 commented 9 years ago

@JohnMcLear I have a research on these projects: https://github.com/raphaelschroiff/NodeSpreadsheet: based on jquery.sheet https://github.com/ethersheet-collective/EtherSheet https://github.com/vasconcelloslf/live-spreadsheet: based on handsontable https://github.com/AlexanderAA/jspreadsheet: based on based onhandsontable https://www.ethercalc.org/4meevgwmab

Jquery.sheet and handsontable has almost all the basic functions for sheet, they only has UI. https://www.ethercalc.org/4meevgwmab is a package of UI and server. Jquery.sheet is more like a app than handsontable.

NodeSpreadsheet has online demo and can be setuped locally, based on jquery.sheet and sharejs. Jquery.sheet has a more complete UI wrapper than handsontable, but has more bugs and less community members, and not as developer freindly as handcontable. Although NodeSpreadsheet has a relatively full function package of a collaborative sheet.

Now here is two option with tech feasibility: 1 based on jquery.sheet and sharejs, like NodeSpreadsheet. Modify the UI tyle and Fix bugs of jquery.sheet. 2 based on handsontable and sharejs(or other OT framework), build the whole UI wrapper for handsontable.

I prefer 2.

liuliming2008 commented 9 years ago

Actually, https://github.com/raphaelschroiff/NodeSpreadsheet and https://www.ethercalc.org/4meevgwmab is basically usable, especially NodeSpreadsheet.

JohnMcLear commented 9 years ago

Nodespreadsheet last commit authored on 3 Dec 2012 Ethercalc is under a really bad license.

liuliming2008 commented 9 years ago

Nodespreadsheet is based on sharejs and jquery.sheet. Sharejs is active. Jquery.sheet is also active, but not as popular and developer friendly as handsontable.

So I prefer 2: 2 based on handsontable and sharejs(or other OT framework), build the whole UI wrapper for handsontable.

cooperq commented 9 years ago

So we originally based the project on jquery.sheet but we found it too buggy when we tried to set up collaboration. It was too much of a hack to try to make every function of jquery.sheet go over the wire. So we wrote our own UI. The other advantage of this is that we were free to try to make a better spreadsheet UI and not just another one based off of the same old patterns (e.g. excel, libreoffice, visicalc). I think that ethersheet wiill have the most success in trying to subvert the existing spreadsheet paradigms. There are already a million other spreadsheets that work the same way, lets not be one million and one.

JohnMcLear commented 9 years ago

+1