I just got a email newsletter from Linspire. They just released an Ajax word processor. Go to www.ajaxwrite.com and you have a fullfeatured word processor in a browser window. This is nothing new except for you can open edit and save Microsoft Word documents.
From the newsletter:
ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox browser at www.ajaxWrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be loaded. For 90 percent of the people in the world, the need to buy Microsoft Word just vanished. This won't make Microsoft happy, but software users should be very excited that software just got cheaper, immediate and modern.
But ajaxWrite is just the start. We have a library of applications we have been working on to replace most of the standard PC software titles. Every week we will launch a new sophisticated program on Wednesday at 12:00 PST on www.ajaxlaunch.com These programs will push the boundaries of what people believe is possible today with web-delivered software. These programs look and operate much like their traditional software cousins, but are cross-platform, loaded dynamically, and are available to users at no charge. I'm convinced if you try a few of these products you will understand how the software business will fundamentally change.
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There have been rumours that Google might make some kind of Google Word implementing Ajax. Would probably work very nicely with GMail.
Rob Loach [Website] [Projects]
Writely is the original one. Google already bought it. Both Ajaxword and Writely are exceedingly basic and actually use the built-in HTML editor in IE, Firefox, etc. The only thing unique about them is the server side conversion to/from word from/to HTML.
You'll find that most Word documents won't actually convert intact. AbiWord is far more useful and compatible.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Java-based, but a heck of a lot more "word-friendly" than the ajax based stuff...
http://online.thinkfree.com
Looks pretty nice! Also has Excell and PPT...
Jds
Seems like the java application wants to download onto my computer.
If I am using PFF then those files are being downloaded onto my flash drive, right?
Devs - am I wrong about this.
Otherwise it looks very cool.
Life is about the journey not the destination!
The Kazoo Spartan
Well, one would assume that it wouldn't work at all, unless you had Java installed on your machine. However, one would also assume that it would be downloaded to your temp directory.
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I guess I should have told you before, but I am using a U3 USB.
Java and IE seem to continually want to add files to the following folders.
x:\Documents\U3UserProfile\Local Settings\Application Data
If I don't watch the content and size of those files then they can grow pretty massive. i have had as much as 20MB of temp files that want to
live there.
I just think that Thinkfree seems to be bad for portable users.
Life is about the journey not the destination!
The Kazoo Spartan
Eyeos also shows some promise. Very slow though, as is writely. Ajaxwrit eis much speedier but right now it doesn’t have true web service capabilities, it is just software. Isn't ity by the lindows guy?
Mat