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With this release Fidus Writer is finally at a stage where you can try it, even without your own server! But be aware that we need to cover the cost of running the server (in addition to developing the software), so the server is only set up temporarily for testing. Donate now so that development can… read more |
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This is the Microsoft compatibility release! Fidus Writer is now getting really close to releasing the first release candidate and also to offering a testing server for users who cannot install Fidus Writer themselves. We just found an issue with Safari on iPad today, so we’ll have to either fix this or disable logins from… read more |
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Getting more stable very time, this time we have the following changes: Allows Copying/pasting/merging across document parts Fix: badly written formulas shouldn’t crash the editor Fix: when uploading images in the document of another user, these images should be owned by document owner Fix: make it possible to edit title and categories of images owned… read more |
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Getting closer to the 3.0.0 release, in beta 2, article authors can give comment only access rights to collaborators. This feature was mainly developed by Aleksandr Korovin from the OSCOSS project/University of Bonn. Download it from here. Other changes: Made “read only” mode work Allow enabling of compression mode for production sites Fix: Import Fidus… read more |
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It took a long time, but finally here it is: the beta1 of the 3.0 upcoming 3.0 release. This is the first Fidus Writer beta release since January 2014. The first and last full version release was version 1.0 in August 2013. Download it from here. What is new? The main new features are the… read more |
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The German government-financed “German Research Community” (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has funded a project to open the scholarly communications by means of using open source tools for communicating started last month and is expected to run for the next 24-30 months. Philipp Mayr of the Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne presents the project in… read more |
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When creating a piece of software there are usually many ways it can be optimized. One aspect we didn’t even think about was the collaboration code. At the heart of our collaboration system is a JavaScript library called diffDOM: It can compare the difference between two websites. We take a snapshot before anything has changed… read more |
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TL;DR: No we are not dead. But we have been stepping back a bit from the development, instead trying to solve some of the more fundamental issues with printing and editing on the web. Fidus Writer has been quite feature complete for Chrome-based browsers. Yet still, it has not always been working. This is because… read more |
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Fidus Writer was recently mentioned in an article on Nature.com together with writeLaTeX and Authorea. As mentioned in the article writeLaTex is “produced by a company also called writeLaTeX, supported by Digital Science, a division of Macmillan, which publishes Nature.” So in a certain sense this is Nature reviewing one of their own tools with… read more |
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Fidus Writer was represented at the W3C Extensible Web Summit in Berlin on September 11, 2014. This is one of several half-formal meetings around the main web standardization body and with just 56 participants we could discuss directly with those who make web standards that affect the online experience of the 2.8 Billion people who… read more |