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No, I get that. As I said, several times. I get that Google does that. But I don't understand why Google makes it only work that way. I need to be able to have
by mkr-hn 14y ago
No, I get that. As I said, several times. I get that Google does that. But I don't understand why Google makes it only work that way. I need to be able to have it work the way all other office suites work because I want to be able to open it in them without exporting.
It can be an option off in the periphery. The interface can politely warn me with a little pop-out at the edge that I can't use collaboration features if I enable the "works like all other office suites" function for a document. Call it compatibility mode. Word's web application does this if I edit an ODT in it. LibreOffice does this if I edit a .docx in it. I don't mind.
edit: I just noticed your bio. Maybe you can have someone from the Docs team come over and look at this? They might understand what I'm saying.
- justinschuh 14y agoI'll try to explain one last time. Docs is built from the ground up to support real-time collaborative editing, because that's how the Web works. I don't speak for anyone involved with Docs, but I wouldn't expect it to be rearchitected to support the use case you're asking for because it's a major change that introduces tremendous complexity such as: manual saves, document locking, whole document collisions, etc.
- mkr-hn 14y agoSo, to sum all this up, "Docs fundamentally can't work the way you need it to work." I'll stick to LibreOffice and Word.