{"id":347,"date":"2006-06-06T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-06-06T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T03:33:40","slug":"google-does-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/347","title":{"rendered":"Google does spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href='http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com'>spreadsheets.google.com<\/a>.  Limited time look at what javascript can do for a spreadsheet.  I took a quick look and it seems to fit large chunks of what I use Excel or calc, the OpenOffice spreadsheet program, for.  Just a quick tour of what I such spreadsheet programs for, and what Google spreadsheet supports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cut and paste, of text and formulas\n<li>control arrow movement and selection\n<li>formatting of cells\n<li>merging of cells and alignment of text in cells\n<li>undo\/redo that goes at least 20 deep\n<li>sum\/count\n<li>can freeze rows\n<li>share and save the spreadsheet\n<li>export to csv and xls\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand, no:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dragging of cells to increment them (first cell is 45, next is 46, 47&#8230;).\n<li>using the arrows to select what goes into a formula&#8211;you can type in the range or use the mouse\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty decent for a web based application.  And it does have one killer feature&#8211;updates are immediatly propagated (I have never tried to do this with a modern version of Excel, so don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s standard behaviour).  Snappy enough to use, at least on my relatively modern computer.  I looked at the js source and it&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/z0p.spreadsheets.google.com\/jscript\/trix_main_60.js'>55k of crazy javascript<\/a> (<em>Update, 6\/9: This link is broken.<\/em>).  Wowsa.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never used <a href='http:\/\/www.softwaregarden.com\/wkcalpha\/'>wikicalc<\/a> but it looks more full featured that Google spreadsheets.  On the other hand, Google spreadsheets has a working beta version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This and the acquisition of <a href='http:\/\/writely.com'>writely<\/a> make me wonder if some folks are correct when they doubt that <a href='http:\/\/www.microsoftmonitor.com\/archives\/014265.html'>Google will  release a software productivity suite<\/a>.  (More <a href='http:\/\/www.microsoftmonitor.com\/archives\/015805.html'>here<\/a>.)  Other <a href='http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/16\/please_google_n_1.html'>interesting<\/a> <a href='http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/05\/googles_new_web.html'>comments <\/a>from Paul Kedrosky.<\/p>\n<p>I know more than one person that absolutely depend on <a href='http:\/\/www.gmail.com'>gmail<\/a> for business functionality, which spooks me.  And in some ways, I agree with Paul, it appears that Google &#8220;&#8230;takes a nuclear winter approach wherein it ruins markets by freezing them and then cutting revenues to zero.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Personally, if I don&#8217;t pay for something, I&#8217;m always leery of it being taken away.  Of course, if I pay, the service can also go away, but at least I have some more leverage with the company&#8211;after all, if they take the service away, they lose money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out spreadsheets.google.com. Limited time look at what javascript can do for a spreadsheet. I took a quick look and it seems to fit large chunks of what I use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}