ajaxXLS: Web-based spreadsheet from ajaxLaunch
Michael Robertson's
ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and
will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far
from finished. In fact, it's downright ...
The criticisms are, in part, the same problems you find with any web-based application. Namely, keyboard shortcuts
don't always work (or get implemented), browser-specific technology (in this case, Firefox 1.5), and of course some
folks raise security issues with the whole ajax thing... But Extremetech gets very specific in criticisms of ajaxWrite, which we mentioned
earlier. It's a top-to-bottom ...
Om Malik reports on a project from Michael Robertson called ajaxWrite. Yes, it's another web-based word processor. The nice thing is, you get
a window to yourself, and that window (complete with tabs for your docs) is a pretty basic word processor. I'm soaking
in it right now... What's really impressive is the speed and stability of the app. That could be due to it only being
compatible with ...





