The developers don’t need to invent any feature, everything can be automatically imported from LibreOffice. The heritage of LibreOffice is a true advantage of Collabora.

That seems to deliver a much more rapid editing process than a vice-versa approach.įunctionality: the real and the potential We process every event on client side and send the results to the server. ONLYOFFICE gives you the complete editor in your browser. The construction of Collabora is slow by very nature since the editor is remote from the user: you only see a picture puppeted by the coordinates. However, the fact that these pictures travel from the server might get a little interruptive: add a bit of connection instability and get one block rendered slower than others or not rendered at all. The page is split into blocks that allows loading it slightly faster.

It is not hard to grasp how Collabora renders your inputs. That greatly saves server resources and keeps work running faster. While Collabora delegates nearly everything to the server, we put only a handful of processes there including saving, conversion and spell checking. The editor indeed works right in your browser and constantly exchanges its data with the server. In ONLYOFFICE these are resources of a client that we rely on. The whole process runs on the server and is instantly shown within Collabora’s interface, which is visually different from the one you can find in LibreOffice.

This editor is called LibreOffice and Collabora is somewhat a thin client: there’s not much going on on your very computer. The battle for users runs tough, however, we have aces up a sleeve, and these are what this story is all about.īriefly, Collabora is a visual representation of a server-hosted editor sent to your browser. This product is basically the successor of OpenOffice and LibreOffice’s open source legacy. Talking advantages, Collabora does have one significant, ideological, advantage. Since our integration with Nextcloud, we are even more frequently asked what exactly does ONLYOFFICE have that our direct competitor, Collabora, doesn’t?

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