Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser
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The project is a client-side viewer for OOXML files, meaning Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. It runs in the browser, ships separate Wasm bundles per format, and the demo makes it look fast and polished. That got attention because browser previews for Office files are still a mess, and a lightweight viewer with selectable text or interactive spreadsheets would be genuinely useful for product teams.
Treat this as an interesting preview component, not a compatibility layer you can trust for enterprise Office files. If your product depends on exact layout, you still need a validation corpus and probably a server-side fallback like LibreOffice or PDF conversion.
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