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Early AJAX Office Applications

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the proof-of-concept dept.

prostoalex writes "Perhaps many, who viewed Zimbra presentation from yesterday, thought about other office-related applications they would like to see moved to the Web. Richard McManus on ZDNet provides a list of the currently available AJAX apps. Did you know there was AJAX word processor, AJAX spreadsheet, AJAX calendar, AJAX presentation-building software, AJAX e-mail client, AJAX note-taking software and some other interesting applications, which, deployed on your local server, do not need installation and "just work" in a browser window?"

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  1. The distributive property of English by themightythor · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Dear editors,

    When you have a list of things to which a common adjective is applied, you can move the adjective to the front of the list and there's an implied application to all the members in the list. For example:

    AJAX word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, presentation-building software, e-mail client, note-taking software
    is equivalent to
    AJAX word processor, AJAX spreadsheet, AJAX calendar, AJAX presentation-building software, AJAX e-mail client, AJAX note-taking software.

    This is especially true when the context suggests that you might be speaking about things that qualify as being identified by that adjective.