> It's a collaborative text editor. What point is there to using it offline? You're using your premise as your argument. > All the disadvantages you state are

> It's a collaborative text editor. What point is there to using it offline? You're using your premise as your argument. > All the disadvantages you state are already inherent in the concept of "collaborative text editor", whether or not it's web-based. Not at all. A locally hosted application can collaborate by sharing only its data, not the application itself, with all data stored locally after the work session ends. I'm only making the point that your premise is mistaken, not that a collaborative editor isn't an obvious application for Web technologies, all legitimate objections aside. The good news is that a collaborative editor might itself be Web-based, and its documents might reside in the cloud for obvious practical reasons. That's also the bad news, due to problems already listed.