I was playing around Google Docs

fred@fredjean.net (Frederic Jean) — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:46:07 +0000

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.]

"I was playing around Google Docs" by Doug

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:10:26 +0000

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.

"I was playing around Google Docs" by Cliff

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:41:06 +0000

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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