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1. Abiword to
2. Epiphany to
3. Totem.

Next, compare

1. Internet Explorer 7, released on October 18, 2006 to
2. Microsoft Word, released in December, 2007, to
3. Windows Media Player 11, by the same company for the same platform.

Now tell me with a straight face that Windows knows how to look like Windows.

Nevermind RTF is universally-readable and designed to be so (rather than just a modification of a single application's internal format), documented, and already used for interchange between word processors by many people... (It's even just marked up plaintext so you could say it's safe for archival...) It's just not the glamourous thing right now, possibly because it was Microsoft's idea in the first place many years ago.

Ahh well, AbiWord supports both, on Windows, Linux, and Mac. For those who just use word-processing and like both speed and functionality, the requirement for office has already been removed. :) www.abisource.com

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

Well, I'm not sure about the other features (though they can be written, probably most easily as plugins), but AbiWord definitely has mathematical equation editing that works - it's MathML and LaTeX based, and basically surpasses all other word processors in this account for those with experience in math markup (no new language to learn!).

Check it out at www.abisource.com (and stop back in a few months for our real-time collaborative editing plugin, debuting with version 2.6.0 )

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

Closer to comparable (actually a fully-featured word processor with a collaboration feature in development and already useable if you like compiling) is AbiWord - cross-platform and all. But it doesn't run in a web browser, but natively on Mac, Linux, and Windows. It's my personal preference for word processors, which is why I got involved with it (several years ago already).

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

The RSS feed seems interesting, but perhaps a bit gimmicky... and AbiWord runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux (all the places those compatible web-browsers run, plus Nokia 770 and OLPC), and will very soon (as in, it's almost done) have a real-time online collaboration feature as well... :D

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

And soon (as in next major stable release), AbiWord will not only be free, but will have a real-time online collaboration feature on top of a fully-featured, cross platform word processor, not just an AJAX word processor created for the sake of a collaboration feature. :D

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

AbiWord's collaboration-enabled 2.6 release will be out before OO.o and Word can catch up, almost certainly. And we have a secret project that will make it even more attractive... :)

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

Actually, since scripting isn't supported in AbiWord documents (writing plugins is the recommended way to do anything crazy that you can't script externally, as far as I know), the same isn't true for AbiWord.

AbiWord strips out macros and ignores them - a plus for security! :)

--Ryan, AbiWord Dev and Win32 Maintainer
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/