Since that's what I use, they'd better ;)
On 05/20/2004 12:24 PM, William Z Pope wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>=================================================================
>>>Karl F. Best
>>>Vice President, OASIS
>>>office +1 978.667.5115 x206 mobile +1 978.761.1648
>>> http://www.oasis-open.org
>>>
>>
>>--
>>Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail:
>>
>>Web Technologies and Standards | Phone: +1 510 550
>>4616 x31442
>>Sun Microsystems Inc. | W3C AC Rep / OASIS BoD
>>
>>
>
>
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Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail:
Web Technologies and Standards | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 x31442
Sun Microsystems Inc. | W3C AC Rep / OASIS BoD
