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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. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting for an AJAX-based browser. Just think about it! The ability to use a browser without having to install it! You just browse on over to the site!

  2. Java applets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember java applets?! They were suppose to do these kind of things...

  3. Todo Lists application in AJAX by Roullian · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's also an Open Source "Todo Lists" application called Tudu Lists.

    You can check it out on SourceForge : http://tudu.sourceforge.net.

    And you can use the live site : http://tudu.ess.ch.

    Everything's free and Open Source (GPL), so you can check out how it works.

  4. One thing to note ... by pythonista · · Score: 5, Informative

    S5 is not an AJAX app. It uses plain JavaScript and some CSS. Nothing like XMLHttpRequest is used in S5. To create an S5 presentation, one needs only text editor. The javascript and CSS is only for the presentation and has nothing to do with the actual slide creation process.

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  5. Re:AJAX Cleaning power by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    The sooner OSS and other people writing software out there realise this the better.

    That's right. Quit wasting time naming things, and get to work, you layabouts! We don't need no stinking names for things. If I want to use that spreadsheet I'll just say, give me that, uhh, counting thing.