Recently I came across an online document editor. (You may see that I have blabbered about it quite a bit in my blog post). It is called Zoho Writer. I can forsee the decreased dependancy on Microsoft Office and such related softwares. Atleast, there would be decreased dependancy in the Piracy that is rampant with respect to these softwares. You can do most of the basic stuff that can be done in Microsoft Word©, and apart from that, multiple people can edit the same document. The document can be shared to public also. The Zoho guys have other services up their sleeve - I am trying that out at the moment.

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This is pretty cool. I wonder what language they're using to create that. The best feature is that you can save your files online and access it from anywhere. Did you say multiple people can edit a document at the same time? Wouldn't that get all crazy? I'd like to see that in action.
However, I still think the formatting is still quite basic. It doesn't do any auto-formatting/-correcting. Maybe they're afraid that it'd make too many mistakes in guessing what the user wants to do.

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What I meant when I said multiple people can edit the same document, I do not mean at the same time - not simaltaneously. More than one people can edit the documents at seperate times.

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Ohh, that meas sence. Otherwise... that WOULD get really crazy!! Zoho is free (the majority of it is, at least) so I think I might check it out a little more sometime. My Microsoft Office trial ran out about two weeks ago.

Thanks!

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I believe Zoho Writer is written in AJAX, which uses XML and Javascript on the client side to provide both access to the backend and interactivity of the UI. However, I still prefer my desktop version of Microsoft Office 2007 over any web-based office tools, since I find desktop ones have better functionality and are easier to use in general.

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