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"I love Hackpad. And it's strange because most of what Hackpad does, Google Docs does. And I really like Google Docs." Google Docs has never felt webby to me.
by mmahemoff 13y ago
"I love Hackpad. And it's strange because most of what Hackpad does, Google Docs does. And I really like Google Docs."
Google Docs has never felt webby to me. It feels like a big Flash or ActiveX component, as it's mostly aiming to emulate 1990s desktop software, with menu-bar and all. So it carries considerable UI baggage and is not a clean web app with a DOM that could be effectively inspected or manipulated.
For real-time collaboration, I much prefer Etherpad-type tools as they're lightweight. For private one-off docs, I find secret Gists much simpler to deal with.
- aray 13y agoWhat other Etherpad-type tools would you recommend? For dealing with less-tech-literate people, Google Docs is nice because they instantly recognize and understand it (and they can see me collaborating at the same time and I don't need to explain anything).
- ingrownpsyche 13y agoTitanpad.
- akanet 13y agoIf you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io https://coderpad.io It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.