Comments on: www.Writely.com http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/ Manifesto-driven development. Eclectic thoughts. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: brainsnorkel.com » Googlystuff http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/comment-page-1/#comment-9416 brainsnorkel.com » Googlystuff Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:05:57 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/06/wwwwritelycom/#comment-9416 [...] I have used Writely for some time infrequently. It has always looked like a good tool for collaborative document development or sophisticated end-user blog posting, but I’ve never found a time to use it for either purpose. It remains in my Googlystuff menu in the hope I’ll find a problem for it to solve but I’m not holding out a lot of hope. [...] [...] I have used Writely for some time infrequently. It has always looked like a good tool for collaborative document development or sophisticated end-user blog posting, but I’ve never found a time to use it for either purpose. It remains in my Googlystuff menu in the hope I’ll find a problem for it to solve but I’m not holding out a lot of hope. [...]

]]> By: Chris http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/comment-page-1/#comment-4682 Chris Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:14:17 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/06/wwwwritelycom/#comment-4682 Ok, here's a short summary of my findings: 1. Editing and republishing seems to push the post further into the future (by 13, then 23 hours!?) 2. No support to post as "draft" so you can manually mess with the generated code. 3. Images are kept on the www.writely.com server at full size. It might be better to server-side scale ala Flickr, methinks. The image of a Galah I inserted weighed in at 500k+ 4. Formating wasn't great. The look of the headings, table spacing and whatnot were different when published. 5. The editor itself seems to have a strange way of dealing with tables and whatnot. If you want to delete a cell/row/table you have to know that the little lump that grows on the rendered edges turns into an x so you can delete these things by clicking. 6. Editing in WYSIWYG and publishing to html/markdown in Wordpress = Round trip engineering is hard, mmmkay? That said, for preparing and collaborating on simple documents completely within the Writely interface - it looks pretty good. I just don't know if I would ever want to restrict myself to the functionality of the Writely interface. Ok, here’s a short summary of my findings:

1. Editing and republishing seems to push the post further into the future (by 13, then 23 hours!?)

2. No support to post as “draft” so you can manually mess with the generated code.

3. Images are kept on the http://www.writely.com server at full size. It might be better to server-side scale ala Flickr, methinks. The image of a Galah I inserted weighed in at 500k+

4. Formating wasn’t great. The look of the headings, table spacing and whatnot were different when published.

5. The editor itself seems to have a strange way of dealing with tables and whatnot. If you want to delete a cell/row/table you have to know that the little lump that grows on the rendered edges turns into an x so you can delete these things by clicking.

6. Editing in WYSIWYG and publishing to html/markdown in WordPress = Round trip engineering is hard, mmmkay?

That said, for preparing and collaborating on simple documents completely within the Writely interface – it looks pretty good. I just don’t know if I would ever want to restrict myself to the functionality of the Writely interface.

]]> By: OddThinking » Ecto: A brief review http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/comment-page-1/#comment-4674 OddThinking » Ecto: A brief review Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:25:09 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/06/wwwwritelycom/#comment-4674 [...] With Brainsnorkel experimenting with Writely, I thought it was about time that I evaluated Ecto as I promised a month ago. [...] [...] With Brainsnorkel experimenting with Writely, I thought it was about time that I evaluated Ecto as I promised a month ago. [...]

]]> By: Chris http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/comment-page-1/#comment-4673 Chris Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:23:10 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/06/wwwwritelycom/#comment-4673 It turns out to be - what you see ... is completely different than what you get. It turns out to be – what you see … is completely different than what you get.

]]> By: Alastair http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/07/wwwwritelycom/comment-page-1/#comment-4667 Alastair Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:44:20 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/06/wwwwritelycom/#comment-4667 As predicted, the generated HTML is teh suck: <blockquote><code><p><font size="3"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s a simple, but clean WYSIWYMG interface.  Features apparently include:<br /> </span></font></p></code></blockquote> (hoping that wordpress doesn't mangle that too much...) As predicted, the generated HTML is teh suck:

<p><font size="3"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s a simple, but clean WYSIWYMG interface.&nbsp; Features apparently include:<br />
</span></font></p>

(hoping that wordpress doesn’t mangle that too much…)

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