Session Start (whatsapundit:Ishbadiddle): Wed Jan 10 11:28:38 2007
whatsapundit: Have you looked at Google's "Docs & Spreadsheets"?
Ishbadiddle: no
whatsapundit: great idea, but the first iteration of the editor makes me want to scream.
whatsapundit: the doc editor, that is.
whatsapundit: every bad HTML habit is instantiated by the WYSIWYG editor.
whatsapundit: the geek in me looks at this and says "You coulda been a contenda!"
whatsapundit: you have a gmail account?
whatsapundit: I'll show you a sample
Ishbadiddle: XXXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com
Ishbadiddle: i distrust google with my docs
whatsapundit: i would too
whatsapundit: amazing how fast google morphed into big brother
whatsapundit: "don't be evil"
whatsapundit: "(unless there's a testerosa in it for me....)"
Ishbadiddle: A cursed Testerosa...
whatsapundit: they're built in france; they're all cursed.
Ishbadiddle: well it's not completely awful
Ishbadiddle: looking at docu
whatsapundit: it's the underlying HTML that's awful
whatsapundit: the dreaded <br /> is as good as a <p> </p> convention
whatsapundit: the revision tracking functionality is NICE though
whatsapundit: trust google to get the hard stuff right and the easy stuff totally bollixed
whatsapundit: probably want to pull this document down in a couple of minutes
whatsapundit: but I thought you might be interested.
whatsapundit: Again, if it weren't google I'd be psyched
whatsapundit: as is....
whatsapundit: "all your content are belong to us"
Ishbadiddle: http://base.google.com/base
whatsapundit: oh, jeeez
whatsapundit: that's funny
whatsapundit: may be time to BLIM
Ishbadiddle: go right ahead
POSTSCRIPT: I just spent an hour and a half trying to get this post up. The problem? It turns out that any time I try to post a link that goes to http://docs.google.com Movable Type 3.3 throws a 500 Server Configuration Error page at me. Now that's evil. The most amazing thing about the experience? The same error happens even when I try to link to http://tinyurl.com/j46zg, which is a redirect to docs.google.com! Now that's really, really evil.
POSTSCRIPT: I just spent an hour and a half trying to get this post up. The problem? It turns out that any time I try to post a link that goes to http://docs.google.com Movable Type 3.3 throws a 500 Server Configuration Error page at me. Now that's evil. The most amazing thing about the experience? The same error happens even when I try to link to http://tinyurl.com/j46zg, which is a redirect to docs.google.com! Now that's really, really evil.