Comment by Joel_Mckay
3 hours ago
>It does not even have to be in a web UI or browser
LibreOffice Writer online was not popular, so it is understandable you assume it doesn't exist. There is also the trivial headless Linux remote desktop cloud hosting with 100% identical functionality.
>"edit at the same time"
Perhaps you meant: "View -> Toolbars -> Track Changes..."
Most documents that support OLE have difficulty handling concurrent writes. Office 365 abandoned desktop publishing in 2019, and replaced it with a web document management system.
Best workaround is every user imports each instanced changes: "File -> Merge Document."
And manually handle any collisions.
I would post how to setup your own remote collaborative environment on an $8/month host, but people seem like they are not interested. =3
Are you talking about the LO WASM thingy? (https://wasm-test.libreoffice.org/)
I have recently tried to use it, but couldn't find a way to open files from local computer in it. It showed me a fake filesystem and dragging and dropping files also didn't work.
I have not used another web browser LO thing, I think. If you are talking about another thing, do you have demo site/link?
> Perhaps you meant: "View -> Toolbars -> Track Changes..."
No, I mean a mode or so that is like online word processors like Google Docs, where you see the cursor of someone else, with their name, and can see them typing live, while you are also typing somewhere in the document. Unless "Track Changes" somehow enables connecting to someone else and seeing their actions concurrently, it is not what I am talking about. I really mean collaboratively editing a document, at the same time, seeing changes others make live, not merging afterwards (the git model).