Re: Microsoft’s Fluid Framework is now open source, comes to Office 365

inspiring.

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 07:59, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
wrote:

> On 5/20/20 5:07 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 22:37, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 5/20/20 3:28 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> Long time, no post.
>>
>> Quite an interesting article here on Microsoft's fluid framework
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>> "In addition, *Microsoft is also open-sourcing the Fluid Framework and
>> making the code available on GitHub*  within the next few weeks."
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>> https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/19/microsofts-fluid-framework-is-now-open-source-comes-to-office-365/
>>
>> Watch the video here
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10hXCKbfXAM
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>> It looks like one small step towards making a read write web a reality
>>
>> I tried signing up but got an authentication error, so it still seems
>> quite early.  As Microsoft is not my personal operating system, perhaps
>> some other might be better suited to try this out and report experiences
>>
>> Thanks to spotter:  Kingsley!
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>> With a bit of luck, re openness,  this framework could be extended to
>> further use existing Open Standards e.g., LDP, WebDAV, HTTP URIs as Entity
>> (rather than just Document) Identifiers, SPARQL (which is delivered over
>> HTTP anyway), etc..
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> That could be an enormous step to bringing the RWW to a wider audience.  I
> suspect Azure has many of these features already, again, I'm not a user
> there.
>
> A quick web search showed webdav+azure in action
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> https://support.workspace365.net/hc/en-us/articles/360013051434-Azure-Files-shared-through-WebDav-SSL
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> I think WebDAV was originally a Microsoft influenced standard
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> Clearly, they already have websockets in use re live collaboration etc..
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>
> And hint of what's behind it?  Or are you referring to the realtime
> collaboration aspects?  I think that's been around in Microsoft products
> for a while
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> The realtime collaboration is Websockets which is part of .NET which is
> how they build their stuff.
>
> Xamarin is the vehicle for cross-platform .NET (originating from the Mono
> work done eons ago lead by Miguel de Icaza).
>
> [1]
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/developing-real-time-communication-apps-with-websocket/
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