Browser Word Document Editor

Question

I've been looking at Adobe Buzzword and Zoho Writer and the functionality their editor controls provide is something that I need to incorporate into an application I'm working on.

To be clear, I'm not looking for a WYSIWYG HTML editor like FCKEditor or the Telerik R.A.D controls editor.

What I'm looking for is an editor that can create, edit and save word documents to the server within the browser.

Does anyone know of any controls (commercial or open source) that are available that might be able to provide this functionality? I'd prefer DHTML based, but Flash or Silverlight would be ok too, it just needs to live inside the browser.

Answer 1

We were working on a product called Aspose.Editor for .NET that was supposed to work like MS Word, but in a browser window. But it was a .NET control and required .NET on the client. In the end we had to discontinue development because it was too complex to create a serious word processor by a small team. And the fact that it was limited to .NET was a factor too.