Would the plug-in(s) work with Mozilla based browsers, Firefox?
=bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Gutentag [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:04 PM
> To:
> Cc: ; Jeff Lomas
> Subject: Re: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system
>
>
>
> On 05/19/2004 12:36 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.
>
> No one from Sun would be able to use this, as you know. Apart
> from that, I would say that no matter what individual
> companies' policies are regarding their employees' approved
> desktops, OASIS cannot develop to one particular solution.
> Whatever solution OASIS comes up with MUST work on all
> platforms. In view of this, I would say that the answers to
> your two questions above are irrelevant.
>
> >
> > thanks for your input.
> > -Karl
> >
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> > Karl F. Best
> > Vice President, OASIS
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> >
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