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Oh man, you're hilarious. You're fairly certain Docs doesn't allow for offline editing yet? REALLY?!! They've offered it since May 2007 when they released Gears

Oh man, you're hilarious. You're fairly certain Docs doesn't allow for offline editing yet? REALLY?!! They've offered it since May 2007 when they released Gears, that was the whole purpose of Gears to allow offline access to online content. It works in YouTube for gods sake, did you not even bother to read what Docs or Gears is before claiming knowledge about them?! Why do you claim saving documents is inefficient, when a SSB of a document can be HTML, OpenOffice, PDF, RTF, TXT or Doc. I'm sorry, I'm failing to see how this is inefficient? I mean, how can it be any more inefficient than Office that makes a clutter of files without a users consent? With Docs I have full access to my files anywhere, including offline. Then whenever I need it in an actual file format, I merely download it, which incidentally can be done whilst using offline mode. BTW, the application shortcut provided when allowing Docs to run through Gears actually defaults to offline access and connects if it detects an internet connection. Oh and, here's the trumps of using Docs. The one time an error happened, I wasn't told the problem the error report was sent to the developers. And you know what, the error never happened again and I didn't have to wait till Office 2012 for the fucking fix! That's why Docs is better than Office, because it's not updated every half-decade and still a buggy CPU hogging piece of expensive crap.

unalone 18y ago
I was under the impression that you could access files but not edit them. That was how it stood the last time I used Docs, and a version of Gears then wouldn't allow for editing. I use "inefficient" because when I look at SSBs I tend to look at them as a whole. When you open an SSB, it creates a separate process for that one browser. (I haven't tried this with Chrome, but that's how it works in Prism, Safari 4, and Fluid.) That means, among other things, that when you go to pick default browser and other various browser commends, you get a cluttered list of documents taking up space where your various important browsers ought to take precedence. Of course the SSB defaults to offline. Isn't that the point of Gears? I never suggested that Gears didn't work as mentioned. And I've used Docs. I'm aware that there are good things to it. That doesn't mean that it has no flaws, or that it's actually a decent replacement for Office. It doesn't have nearly the power that Office does. That's where Microsoft excels. Every small thing you might ever need to do, you CAN do. It's bloated but it never lacks a feature. Docs still lacks a decent page arrangement tool. And I know that some people don't care about page layouts, but that's the point. Docs is extremely lightweight and it helps people who need a generic word processor. That doesn't make it an Office competitor. And I don't think it wants to be an Office competitor, which is the point that I made when I posted. I'm not saying this as an Office fanboy. I use TextEdit and Pages for my work. (I'm pretty sure that I can actually do more in TextEdit than I can in Docs, by the way: just to make a comparison point.) I use Dropbox to sync up my files, which is nice because it's much more intuitive when it's already installed on both computers, and because I get to use the more potent desktop editors. I won't begrudge you the ability to make angry posts, but for the love of God: make sure you actually know what the other person was talking about before you make an angry response. I used Docs intensively for 2 years with a group of people; I used Gears over the same period of time; I'm a huge fan of Chrome. I disagreed with the central point of this blog post. Not over everything this post mentions or stands for. Cool it a bit.

unalone 18y ago

I was under the impression that you could access files but not edit them. That was how it stood the last time I used Docs, and a version of Gears then wouldn't allow for editing. I use "inefficient" because when I look at SSBs I tend to look at them as a whole. When you open an SSB, it creates a separate process for that one browser. (I haven't tried this with Chrome, but that's how it works in Prism, Safari 4, and Fluid.) That means, among other things, that when you go to pick default browser and other various browser commends, you get a cluttered list of documents taking up space where your various important browsers ought to take precedence. Of course the SSB defaults to offline. Isn't that the point of Gears? I never suggested that Gears didn't work as mentioned. And I've used Docs. I'm aware that there are good things to it. That doesn't mean that it has no flaws, or that it's actually a decent replacement for Office. It doesn't have nearly the power that Office does. That's where Microsoft excels. Every small thing you might ever need to do, you CAN do. It's bloated but it never lacks a feature. Docs still lacks a decent page arrangement tool. And I know that some people don't care about page layouts, but that's the point. Docs is extremely lightweight and it helps people who need a generic word processor. That doesn't make it an Office competitor. And I don't think it wants to be an Office competitor, which is the point that I made when I posted. I'm not saying this as an Office fanboy. I use TextEdit and Pages for my work. (I'm pretty sure that I can actually do more in TextEdit than I can in Docs, by the way: just to make a comparison point.) I use Dropbox to sync up my files, which is nice because it's much more intuitive when it's already installed on both computers, and because I get to use the more potent desktop editors. I won't begrudge you the ability to make angry posts, but for the love of God: make sure you actually know what the other person was talking about before you make an angry response. I used Docs intensively for 2 years with a group of people; I used Gears over the same period of time; I'm a huge fan of Chrome. I disagreed with the central point of this blog post. Not over everything this post mentions or stands for. Cool it a bit.