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Google please don't break Writely

Thu, 2006-03-09 21:06 — Roland

It seems like only yesterday that I first started using Writely. In fact it was back in early October 2005, five months ago. Since then it's become my default cross platform way to create rich documents collaboratively despite its bugs like the fact that it can't pass the "Roland and Troy nested list test" (but then no web writing app does!). Congrats to the Writely folks.

To the fine folks at Google a few humble pleas: Please don't pull a Blogger. Keep adding features such as fixing the aforementioned nested list bug. Keep Writely competitive unlike Blogger. And finally consider picking up Dabble DB as your spreadsheet web app.

From Google? Yep, Google! .:

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Writely is now part of Google!

Yes, we've been acquired by Google, and we're really excited about this for many, many reasons. But I can hear you saying, "I don't care why YOU'RE excited - I want to know how this change will impact ME!"

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Comments

Fri, 2006-03-10 06:03 — Mark Wubben (not verified)

I find it interesting that

I find it interesting that Google, who have some top-notch DHTML programmers, found the need to acquire Writely. The technology behind such an online editor is relatively straightforward, so all I can think of is that Google's DHTML wizards are hard at work at some other stuff.

Fri, 2006-03-10 10:06 — Roland
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Basics are easy, getting details right is hard

If it were that straightforward, then every web app with a rich text editor would pass the "Roland and Troy nested list" test.
Fri, 2006-03-10 15:50 — Mark Wubben (not verified)

Now you're getting into

Now you're getting into details. I said "relatively straightforward" ;-)

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