Procedure and apparatus for viewing and interacting with a spreadsheet within a Web browser

摘要

A procedure for displaying and interacting with a spreadsheet document within the context of a Web browser application program (10), the procedure comprising: receiving, on an application server, a request from a client computer that stores the Web browser application program to open an existing spreadsheet document (44) in the Web browser application program; in response to the request, the generation of a representation of only a portion of the spreadsheet document capable of being reproduced by the Web browser application program, in which the representation of the portion of the spreadsheet document comprises only language markers for use in the reproduction of the representation of the spreadsheet document and directive executable within the context of the Web browser for the provision of an interactivity with the viewable version of the portion of the spreadsheet document; the transmission, by the application server, of the representation of only the portion of the spreadsheet to the client computer that stores the web browser application program; the provision of a viewable version of the portion of the spreadsheet document by reproducing the representation of the spreadsheet document in the Web browser, receiving a user request to modify an aspect of the portion of the spreadsheet document reproduced within the Web browser; and in response to the request, the execution of one of the directives to carry out the requested modification, in which the directives provide functionality for editing and interacting with the calculometer sheet in the context of the Web browser, and in which the directives they provide a functionality to load the original version of the spreadsheet into the spreadsheet application, in which, in response to the request that the original spreadsheet file be opened within the spreadsheet application program, the spreadsheet application program will be launched and the original spreadsheet file corresponding to the portion of the spreadsheet expressed by a web page will be loaded by the spreadsheet application program, including the web page directives that make it possible for a computer user interacts with the representation provided by the scan application Web dor and to modify the spreadsheet.