On: The Lost Apps of the 80s

[reitanqild]

I'm actually missing working OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). I used to like it in MS Works in the 90ies: I could insert an area from a Works spreadsheet into a Works document and have it auto-update (you could choose if it should link the data or copy it.)

[pjmlp → reitanqild]

I works perfectly fine today in Windows applications like Office.

[tibbydudeza → pjmlp]

Sadly nobody has figured out something like OLE for the web - cut and paste is a hit and miss affair.

[topkai22 → tibbydudeza]

Within the context of the Microsoft-verse, Fluid Framework (https://fluidframework.com) is supposed to be solving similar problems in web apps, although I haven't personally played with it.

[zozbot234 → tibbydudeza]

The XML-based surface syntax for HTML5 can seamlessly embed data from arbitrary XML namespaces. It's just a matter of supporting this feature in the browser.

[ilaksh → reitanqild]

Right it was very powerful. We can do something similar with frames or other embedding strategies on the web.

[realaether → reitanqild]

Google Docs does this.