Comments on: Writely Does It Right

By: No Sheep » Google’s Next Big Thing!

No Sheep » Google’s Next Big Thing! — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:41:16 +0000

[...] I was excited about Writely early on, and I’m even more excited to see how it evolves with the power of Google behind it. Which piece will they tackle next? They have GMail, Calendar appears to be around the corner, this gives them word processing… I’d like a spreadsheet application, maybe iRows? Or how about an presentation solution, maybe build an application on top of S5? That would only leave Access and Visio without competition in this space. [...]

By: NoSheep! » S5, A Good Start

NoSheep! » S5, A Good Start — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:30:10 +0000

[...] Writely does this very well as relates to Microsoft Word. For three months now I have used Writely exclusively for my word processing needs. I no longer have any use for Word. [...]

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:37:03 +0000

Yeah, experienced the same difficulty with Safari. Unfortunately developing cross browser supported AJAX sites is nearly impossible. I’ve suffered through this a bit with some stuff I’ve been working on. I assume with critical mass/adoption, we’ll see an expansion of supported browsers.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:28:12 +0000

Currently supported browsers for Writely:
FireFox: 1.0.3 or higher, but NOT 1.5b1
Internet Explorer: 6.0 or higher
Mozilla: 1.4 or higher, but NOT 1.4.1

I guess that leaves Opera zealots like me out of luck for now. The funny thing is, it lets me create an account, log in and choose a name for a new document. Then the actual editor half loads before I’m sent to the browser compatability page.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:09:53 +0000

Actually, there is a spell checker. You need to actually click the icon for it to work though. (its the 4th icon from on the left) The spell checker does the whole MS Word squiggly underline, too :)

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:59:06 +0000

Oh, I also intentionally misspelled consider as consder and there doesn’t appear to be a spell checker…

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:58:21 +0000

OK, a couple stumbles, but good anyway. This is what I sent along to Writely:

With the initial post, it sent through a pile of line breaks that weren’t there in the original document. I then changed one line, and did an update of the post. At this point it fixed the breaks, but dropped the alignment of an image so text stopped wrapping around it. I then went in to check if I had for sure told the image to left align. I had, so I went back and hit update again. At this point everything looks beautiful.