I was playing around Google Docs 2
I was playing around Google Docs and Spreadsheets looking at the different features available. I did notice that the publish tab had a "Post to Blog" button. I decided to give it a try, and you are seeing the result of that attempt.
My first impression of Google Docs is positive. The UI is responsive under Firefox (on Mac OS X of course). I can see underlines under the words that I misspelled. Formatting is available, so I can bold and italicize to my heart's content. This is almost as nice as working with ecto.
The Google Docs UI itself is full of Ajax goodness. It shouldn't be surprising though since this is a Google application.
Well, time to hit the "Post to Blog" button and see what happens.
[Update: The document posted to my blog without problems. I am a little bummed that I couldn't assign a category to it though. It's gotta be a beta :) ]
[Update 2: I did republish my entry from Google Docs. I ended up with a duplicate entry, which isn't too surprising. It was very easy to open the entry in ecto and edit it. No big problem really... It's certainly a good way to post when away.]
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Cliff about 2 hours later:Hi, before docs and spreadsheets came out, EditGrid is an online spreadsheet in the market quite sometimes, it is more responsive than Google one, with spreadheet post-to-blog as well as chart with Google lacking. I invite you to try it out.
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Doug about 11 hours later:Just a note about Google Docs, it is AJAX based, but it was called "Writely", before Google acquired it, so it was one of the early "Web 2.0" apps.
