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Google Adds Scripting Capabilities To Google Docs

Posted by Soulskill on from the scripted-dialogue dept.

snydeq writes "Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize their online applications and automate tasks. Google plans to sign up about 1,000 customers over the next few weeks to test the feature, called Google Apps Script. It will be tested initially in Google Spreadsheets and extended to other Google Docs applications over time. The company isn't saying yet when Apps Script — which is based on JavaScript with object-based extensions added by Google — will be widely available. Google Docs users can already apply to try it out."

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  1. Who cares about Google Docs anymore? by Durrok · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wave is set to pretty much assimilate the web. Just got done watching the demo at wave.google.com and I think I need to change my boxers.

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    I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
    1. Re:Who cares about Google Docs anymore? by patro · · Score: 4, Informative

      because it would be under the control of a single corporation, this could well be argued to be a bad thing, for obvious reasons.

      The protocol will be open and every can run their own wave server independetly of Google, so it won't be under the control of a single corporation.

  2. Google Docs' features are still wanting by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Informative

    While Google Docs is more stable, its features are still wanting compared to Zoho Writer. Google Docs still has nothing to challenge Zoho Writer's Zoho Creator after all thins long!

    Sometimes I wonder whether it was a mistake not to buy Zoho. Those folks at Zoho are quite amazing. There is a an almost 2 year old comparison of the two in which I'd say Zoho beats Google hands down.

  3. Not centralized ! by Macka · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not centralized, they're making it Open Source and publishing the protocols and APIs. The idea is that every organisation can have their own wave server, in the same way that they have their own SMTP Email servers day. Also, they're anticipating that other organisations will write their own fully compatible, standards compliant Wave servers in competition to Google's.

    Want to have a conversation with several people from different organisations (with wave servers) about a project, then open up a Wave for the project and just invite them using their email addresses. The intro vid was long, but they did cover this.