Good point and I have considered it numerous times. I think a BC module for dotProject would be great for a variety of reasons. If nothing else, it would be an interesting way to lever some of that functionality and integrate it into a workflow much more smoothly.

I actually use dotProject and Basecamp on a daily basis (a half dozen tabs of both open right now). And you’re correct, dP doesn’t have a nice, easy way of editting documents like that, but I think the other aspects outweigh that feature. We have some simple file versioning (no diff’ing), the ability to notify the rest of the team about documents, and of course the permissions system applies here. I talk about some of this in more detail here: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/dotproject-vs-basecamp

Keith – Core dotProject Developer

A DHTML calendar was used originally but we had too many browser incompatibilities with it, so we went to the less well performing but better supported HTML popup. But don’t panic, we are looking at more AJAX and DHTML in upcoming releases as this has now matured to the point that browser compatibility is no longer an issue.

As you point out the newer versions of jpgraph don’t include fonts because of licensing issues, something that we also don’t want to get involved in. But we could probably do some things to ease this – like have a link to some of the sites you mention in the installer perhaps.

Editing text docs could be easily made an add-on module, and module development is going to become easier as we start to build a solid module API in the development branch.

Adam Donnison – admin and developer – dotProject