Collaborative Discussions Email Gateway Extension

bnordgren — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:00:01 GMT

This is related to another post, but this post is more of a design and development thread, and the other post seems to be asking about off the shelf solutions.My first experience deploying alfresco's groupware solution, albeit in a kind of backhanded way, failed miserably and is documented in this l

Re: Collaborative Discussions Email Gateway Extension

bnordgren — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:37:05 GMT

Wow. So the report above was written in 2000, and 9.5 years later, the author offers this advice in a blog post (note that the topic is how to share equations on the web, but is easily generalizable to other applications):

Why didn’t I see, then, that the crux of the issue wasn’t XML and MathML and SVG, but rather the ability to “integrate directly into the shared spaces of the Web”? And that what ought to be integrated directly was the typesetting language already familiar to mathematicians, namely LaTeX?

The answer is that I needed (and still need) to be reminded that good-enough solutions here now, and familiar to people, often trump great solutions that aren’t here and wouldn’t be familiar if they were.

The moral: email, being familiar and good-enough, trumps less familiar interfaces.

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