Systems and methods for editing electronic documents

Abstract

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Claims

1. A method comprising:storing document data corresponding to a document to a memory of a computing device;rendering the document data to cause the document to be displayed within a web portion of a user interface of the computing device, wherein the web portion comprises an embedded web browser rendering engine;rendering at least one control element within a native portion of the user interface by executing a native editing application;in response to receiving an input via the at least one control element, passing at least one parameter to at least one function stored within the document data to cause a modification of the displayed document; andusing the embedded web browser rendering engine to re-render the displayed document within the web portion.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving the document data from a server system prior to storing the document to the memory.

3. The method of claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising storing the at least one parameter as a document setting corresponding to the document data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein storing the at least one parameter as a document setting comprises sending the at least one parameter to a server system for storing in a memory location within the server system.

5. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the document data comprises at least one markup language.

6. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one function stored within the document data comprises a client-side language function.2026214016   06 Aug 20267. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one parameter received from the control element is passed to the at least one function by exploiting a hook mechanism exposed in the document data that allows parameters to be passed from the native portion of the user interface to the web portion of the user interface.

8. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the web portion comprises an embedded web browser rendering engine.

9. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one control element comprises one or more of a virtual button, drop-down box, slider, check box or radio button.

10. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one parameter relates to at least one of a font colour, font size, font type, or image to be displayed within the document.

11. A device comprising:a user interface;a memory storing executable code; anda processor configured to access the memory to execute the executable code; wherein when executing the executable code, the processor is caused to:store document data corresponding to the document to the memory;render the document data to cause the document to be displayed within a web portion of the user interface, wherein the web portion comprises an embedded web browser rendering engine;render at least one control element within a native portion of the user interface by executing a native editing application;in response to receiving an input via the at least one control element, pass at least one parameter to at least one function stored within the document data to cause a modification of the displayed document; and2026214016   06 Aug 2026using the embedded web browser rendering engine to re-render the displayed document within the web portion.

12. The device of claim 11, further comprising a communications module configured to retrieve the document data from a server system over a network prior to storing the document to the memory.

13. The device of claim 11 or claim 12, wherein the processor is further caused to store the at least one parameter as a document setting corresponding to the document data.

14. The device of any one of claims 11 to 13, wherein the processor is further caused to store the at least one parameter as a document setting corresponding to the document data and wherein storing the at least one parameter as a document setting comprises sending the at least one parameter to the server system over a network via the communications module for storing.

15. The device of any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein the document data comprises at least one markup language.

16. The device of any one of claims 11 to 15, wherein the at least one function stored within the document data comprises a client-side language function.

17. The device of any one of claims 11 to 16, wherein the processor is caused to pass the at least one parameter received from the control element to the at least one function by exploiting a hook mechanism exposed in the document data that allows parameters to be passed from the native portion of the user interface to the web portion of the user interface.

18. The device of any one of claims 11 to 17, wherein the web portion comprises an embedded web browser rendering engine.2026214016   06 Aug 202619. The device of any one of claims 11 to 18, wherein the at least one parameter relates to at least one of a font colour, font size, font type, or image to be displayed within the document.

520. A non-transient computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 10.10

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