Okay... so I saw this lovely article online today about http://www.ajaxwrite.com - it's a Word Processor written in the oh-so-newfangled-and-fancy-pants AJAX stuff, basically making your browser act like a piece of standalone software made to do something else; in this case, a replacement for Microsoft Word.

Nice try, but no dice guys. Keep working. Here was my review I wrote IN the AjaxWrite software... (Let's see how Flock formats the copied-and-pasted from word version!)

Testing AjaxWrite
by Drake Steele.

Okay, here we go. What can I say? Honestly?

Not bad. I've used worse word processors. Though it's been a few years. AjaxWrite feels a bit unfinished, but it has all the basic features someone needs to type up a document, do some basic formatting, and save, send or print it.

It's really not bad for a free product. But it needs work. They're claiming it as a potential MS Word-killer. In my mind, it has a ways to go, before it gets to that point... Today, it's barely a WordPad-killer. But it's a start. And a good one. If they can just keep improving on it, giving it new features and such, it could conceivably replace Word for a lot of users who only need a basic level of functionality.

What it does have:

• Fonts and formatting
  
• Lists (numbered/bulletted)
  
• Indents
  
• Insertion of images
  
• Colors
• Tables and horizontal rules, and
• Two view modes, web view and preview.
  

What's it lack:

• Features are sketchy (in typing this list, when I hit enter twice to exit the last list, font and alignment both changed - to Times New Roman and Centered, respectively.)
• Intuitiveness - some things aren't where we're used to finding them.
  MORE features. This is very simplistic - GeoWrite for my now-ancient and long departed Commodore 64 could do all that this word processor does - and it was written in 1984.
• A very uninspiring and basic interface to match the features... C'mon, jazz it up guys! This is the 21st Century!
• My save to MS Word, after I opened it, made my document one character wide and about 20 pages. – I had to go change the paper type to make it come up right.
  

Overall, I give it about a 7 out of 10, but a big gold star and an E for effort! Keep up the good work guys, but give us more!

- Drake Out.

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Actually I think that the Flock Blogger did a better job of reading my Word paste-in than AjaxWrite did of making a Word file lol! But seriously, if you need a quick note jotted and you don't have a word processor handy, then try it - it's http://www.ajaxwrite.com. Later!

And I had to re-edit it in Blogger anyway, wouldn't you know it! lol - Drake