[MACEP] Re: OpenOffice and Web-Based Office

[Greg Collver]

I got a chance to use ajaxWrite this morning and it looks pretty good, still
very basic, but the technology behind it looks really promising for future
web based applications.

As far as web based applications, it seems likely that even MS Office will
be web based in the future:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060314/BIZ04/603140305/1
013


Greg


"For much (although certainly not all) of the work IT does, IT is like
children building castles in the sand and watching the tide roll in. That
tide is highly customizable web based solutions ..." Adam Bosworth


Greg Collver
IT Manager / Programmer
Three Rivers School District
PO Box 160, Murphy OR 97533
541-862-3111


-----Original Message-----
From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On Behalf Of
Quentin Hartman
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:44 PM
To: macep at macep.net
Subject: RE: [MACEP] Re: OpenOffice and Web-Based Office


Eric Harrison wrote:

> I just saw this one on slashdot.org. "Introducing ajaxWrite.
> The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a
> completely web-based AJAX platform."
>
>      http://www.linspire.com/ajaxwrite.php

I tried this one out before it died, and it was pretty impressive at first
blush. Unfortunately its import of .doc or .odf files that are anything
other plain text is pretty poor. For instance, it doesn't seem to support
landscape page layouts. It looks like it could be a great tool for certain
times and applications, but lacking the collaboration capabilities of
writely, (currently) poor import filters, and the extremely thorough
installed base of "real" Word-compatible word processors, it kinda seems
like a solution looking for a problem. I mean really, how often is someone
going to have an Internet connection, but not a word processor?

-- 
-Regards-

Quentin Hartman
Technology Coordinator
South Lane School District
Cottage Grove, Oregon
V (541)767-3778
F (541)767-3041
www.slane.k12.or.us

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