The Document Foundation has announced that developers were working on bringing LibreOffice, the project that emerged from OpenOffice. org, to Web browsers and iOS as well as Android devices.

The move, which was announced at the recently held LibreOffice Conference, has an aim to port the open source office suite to Apple's iPad and Android tablets.

Developers have started working, but the products are will not be available to end users until at least late next year.

Making the announcement, the Document Foundation said, "These are not products available to end users, but advanced development projects which will become products sometime in late 2012 or early 2013."

The LibreOffice Online makes use of the HTML's new Canvas interface for 2D graphics, GTK+ software framework, and the Web Socket interface for super fast communication between a browser and server.

The Document Foundation acclaimed that French Government had plans to switch around 500,000 desktops from OpenOffice to LibreOffice.