Comments on: Browser-Based File Manager Bypasses Downloading–Create, Edit & Save Microsoft Office Files Directly To The Server

By: Krivchenkov Roma

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:10:46 +0000

What do you think, is this service may find it’s customer and the niche in the market? Is this business model work?
And how can you convince medium business, especially individuals, to use this kind of service.
What is the essential advantages? And how can you sell it to the customers, f.e. in Russia or India.
They can’t imagine this kind of service)

By: Vengu

Vengu — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:16:24 +0000

yeah! Indians don’t pay too! :-) We pay only the amount we invented . ZERO!

By: Roman Krivchenkov

Roman Krivchenkov — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:50:14 +0000

It’s a good idea, but don’t you think, that in the internet we have tons of OpenSource service that can be used in that case. Another question is don’t you think that the price is too high for this service? I think this model of sales of this type of service is suitable only for USA, but no other.
In Russia, f.e. people don’t have any culture to pay for the most of the services. What do you think?

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By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:12:24 +0000

We see that Safari and Chrome is getting more and more users now. Here is Google Analytics for http://www.ajaxfilebrowser.com:

Browsers:
1. Firefox 49.55%
2. IE 30.32%
3. Chrome 12.80%
4. Safari 4.31%
5. Opera 1.64%

OS:
1. Windows 84.27%
2. Macintosh 12.92%
3. Linux 2.50%

At this point AJAX File Browser will not run in Opera as its support of XmlHttpRequest is somewhat limited and WebDAV would not work in it (Opera supports only GET and POST). But we hope they will fix this soon.

By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:11:17 +0000

We really care about Mac OS X and Safari users and often get questions from them. Unfortunately we can’t create the same create-open-save functionality for them in AJAX File browser running in Safari.

We see that Safari and Chrome is getting more and more users now. Here is Google Analytics for http://www.ajaxfilebrowser.com:

Browsers:
1. Firefox 49.55%
2. IE 30.32%
3. Chrome 12.80%
4. Safari 4.31%
5. Opera 1.64%

OS:
1. Windows 84.27%
2. Macintosh 12.92%
3. Linux 2.50%

By: Louis-Eric

Louis-Eric — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:33:40 +0000

Just for clarification: I think you have a real winner here in a format that will be easy to sell to an already eager audience. I’m not questioning that, nor anything you said.

I’m only responding to the article, which in my mind should have mentioned earlier attempts at doing just what you are doing. WebDrive, FTP drive maps, remote mounts, etc. are all alternatives, some of which are free, none of which (although WebDrive gets close) as intuitive and training-free as what you seem to have come up with (from what I can tell from the short article).

By: ari

ari — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:02:23 +0000

So? Who cares? What percentage of users are on OSX and Linux vs Windows?

Talk about dumb.

By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:37:11 +0000

Let me explain in other words what new Office 2007 features this control utilizes.

It is clear that even Office XP could open and than save files directly to server via its Open\Save File dialog. But it was quite inconvenient, because it was impossible to open a file from a hyperlink on a page in read-write mode. Office 2003 required registry editing on a client side or SharePoint client components installation. Without such tuning it opened files in read-only mode. It was also impossible to create a file from a webpage.

With Office 2007 there is no need in any magic server or client components, just WebDAV and IE are required.

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By: Louis-Eric

Louis-Eric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:01:06 +0000

Nope. Try typing a URL in the File Open dialog of an Office 2003 installation. For a more generic view of that, type any URL in an XP installation of Notepad. Easy read access has been possible for a loooong time. Write, not so much, at least not without some server-side installations like those you describe.

By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:22:28 +0000

The ability to open MS Office documents from browser was possible for years, but it required SharePoint client plug-in from Microsoft, that required separate installation. Only since MS Office 2007 user can create and open MS Office documents directly from a webpage, without installing any additional software.

By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:17:08 +0000

Do you know any AJAX file browser contol for WebDAV independent of server side?

By: IT Hit

IT Hit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:08:00 +0000

As far as I know this is the first AJAX file browser control that utilizes standards-compliant WebDAV protocol for communicating with server. It is independent of server programming language, that is what makes it different.

I assume most of web-interfaces that you have seen actually do not utilize WebDAV, but instead require ASP.NET, Java or PHP on server side.

By: Jeff Widman

Jeff Widman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:10:45 +0000

I just e-mailed them for clarification.

It appears you pay them for the code, then install on your site, but I can’t make sense of their pricing matrix.

Their product names/differentiation is very unclear on the website.

If anyone out there knows, leave a comment and I’ll update the post.

By: Louis-Eric

Louis-Eric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:22 +0000

This has been bundled with various Office apps since 98 already, through WebDAV. The problem of course is that the server you are communicating with be WebDAV compliant. I’ve also been using an application to do just that since at least 2001, called WebDrive (the maker is South River Technologies), which lets me read and write files with any other app through WebDAV, SSH and FTP. I like that tool a lot, but why this isn’t part of Windows (at least on the write side, you can always open a web document by typing a URL in most File Open dialogs) is beyond me.

By: kwanbis

kwanbis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:42:33 +0000

It means that only users of windows can use it. And the ones using IE at that.

No one from OSX or Linux would be able to use it.

Your comment is really dumb.

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By: Tommy Hobbes

Tommy Hobbes — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:57:41 +0000

uh. no yr not.

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:44:54 +0000

“Unfortuntely, the Microsoft Office integration requires Internet Explorer; ”

What is this silliness? IE has a market share of 70% and is the world’s most widely-used browser. So 70% of the computing universe has no problem with this.

This open-source ‘I will sacrifice my unborn children’s souls to the god of Safari’ cult madness is just silly.

By: AB

AB — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:33:29 +0000

I agree with Pj – WebDav has been around for ages and there are plenty of web interfaces to work with it

By: TS

TS — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:57:23 +0000

live these Tools how to implement them on our sites??

By: Pj

Pj — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:51:25 +0000

its been done plenty of times, why is this on TC?

By: Bilawal Hameed

Bilawal Hameed — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:46:18 +0000

Wow, very nice. I’m impressed, and I absolutely didn’t know things like this were possible.

Days evolve, and technology certainly does.

Also, Jeff, how does it cost if the pricing is “over” $1,000 and they are offering a “download” page?