Word processing on the web Honestly, I think this program is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is a fully online word processor. It is wysiwyg (what you see is what you get), very simple and straightforward. I tried it out for a while this morning from my Mac using Firefox and it worked perfectly.

The coolest thing about it is not just the fact that it's a word processor on the web (meaning, no need to purcase separate software), but that it takes advantage of the very fact that it's on the web. It allows you to collaborate on documents with others, make documents publishable, post a document to a blog, gives you the html so that you can turn the result into a fully-designed web page (and it's way cleaner than the html produced by word). You can also save the file as a word document.

Here's the result of the page I created both in Writely and as I published it on the ETC site using their html. I also was able to save it as a word document and it looks good.

People talk about Web 2.0 and this moves us more in that direction, away from a focus on the desktop and desktop applications and more toward connectedness.

web 2.0, writely ¶ 10:10 AM, posted by Laura