Comments on: Is AjaxWrite the new Microsoft Word? http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/2006/03/24/is-ajaxwrite-the-new-microsoft-word/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:50:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jane Evans http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/2006/03/24/is-ajaxwrite-the-new-microsoft-word/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Jane Evans Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:07:24 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=12#comment-8 Hosting peoples private and confidential content on shared servers is not something I can see catching on. It sounds like a great tool for a quick letter whilst on holiday in an internet cafe, but would you really want to be saving your secrets to a server managed by another company? Hosting peoples private and confidential content on shared servers is not something I can see catching on. It sounds like a great tool for a quick letter whilst on holiday in an internet cafe, but would you really want to be saving your secrets to a server managed by another company?

]]> By: John Davies http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/2006/03/24/is-ajaxwrite-the-new-microsoft-word/comment-page-1/#comment-7 John Davies Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:59:08 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=12#comment-7 It will take a great deal of luck and ingenuity to knock Microsoft’s established platform. I rather like what Google is doing with Writely. I haven't got my head around saving my work on another persons hard drive hosted elsewhere, but that is probably just my age. I expect tomorrow’s kids to be embracing this sort of practice and musing at "the old ways" of today. AjaxWrite is missing some pretty fundamental tools which are necessary if it is going to compete against microsoft_word and other newcomers. It will take a great deal of luck and ingenuity to knock Microsoft’s established platform. I rather like what Google is doing with Writely. I haven’t got my head around saving my work on another persons hard drive hosted elsewhere, but that is probably just my age. I expect tomorrow’s kids to be embracing this sort of practice and musing at "the old ways" of today.

AjaxWrite is missing some pretty fundamental tools which are necessary if it is going to compete against microsoft_word and other newcomers.

]]> By: Chris Norton http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/2006/03/24/is-ajaxwrite-the-new-microsoft-word/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Chris Norton Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:40:46 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=12#comment-6 I don't think it's even the new WordPad. "To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features" - setting up page size, page numbers, images, clipart, accessing the vast majority of fonts on my computer, all that's missing way before we get on to stuff like mail merges, macros and so on. Just about every OS you're likely to find yourself using has a competent mini-word processor that'll far outclass this. Given that they seem to have based it on <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Midas" rel="nofollow">Firefox's Midas text editor</a>, it doesn't look like it's going to be too portable to other browsers either. Maybe a glimpse of the future, but looks like we're still living in the present. I don’t think it’s even the new WordPad. “To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features” - setting up page size, page numbers, images, clipart, accessing the vast majority of fonts on my computer, all that’s missing way before we get on to stuff like mail merges, macros and so on. Just about every OS you’re likely to find yourself using has a competent mini-word processor that’ll far outclass this.

Given that they seem to have based it on Firefox’s Midas text editor, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be too portable to other browsers either. Maybe a glimpse of the future, but looks like we’re still living in the present.

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