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title: "ajaxWrite and Open Office / Open Document Format"
description: "<p>I just <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/OmMalik?m=498"><strong>read on Om Malik on Boardband</strong></a> that <a href="http://www.michaelrobertson.com/"><strong>Michael Robertson</strong></a> of <a href="http://www.mp3.com/"><strong>MP3.com</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.linspire.com/"><strong>Linspire</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.sipphone.com/"><strong>SIPphone</strong></a> fame just annonced a new project called <a href="http://www.ajaxwrite.com/"><strong>ajaxWrite</strong></a>.</p>
<p>This is a pure web application word processor without any storage behind it like <a href="http://www.writely.com/"><strong>Writely</strong></a> (when you open a document you upload it and when you save it you download it) but it seems very well written.</p>
<p>The only thing that bothers me is that they claim they support all major file formats but what they actually support is MS Word, RTF, Text and PDF.</p>"
doc_version: "1"
last_updated: "2017-06-02"
date: 2006-03-23
tags: [ajaxWrite, Bubbles, Michael-Robertson, ODF, Open-Document-Format, Open-Office, OpenOffice, Writely]
canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2006/03/23/ajaxwrite-and-open-office-open-document-format/"
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I just [**read on Om Malik on Boardband**][1] that [**Michael Robertson**][2] of [**MP3.com**][3], [**Linspire**][4] and [**SIPphone**][5] fame just annonced a new project called [**ajaxWrite**][6].

This is a pure web application word processor without any storage behind it like [**Writely**][7] (when you open a document you upload it and when you save it you download it) but it seems very well written.

The only thing that bothers me is that they claim they support all major file formats but what they actually support is MS Word, RTF, Text and PDF.

What about the [**Open Office**][8] and/or the [**Open Document Format**][9]? Why isn&#8217;t it supported?
  
If you are going to make such an application available why not use an OPEN format that will be accessible for all?

It&#8217;s annoying. Really.

Anyhow, while this is very cool, I think it could be a good addition to [**Bubbles**][10].

 [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OmMalik?m=498
 [2]: http://www.michaelrobertson.com/
 [3]: http://www.mp3.com/
 [4]: http://www.linspire.com/
 [5]: http://www.sipphone.com/
 [6]: http://www.ajaxwrite.com/
 [7]: http://www.writely.com/
 [8]: http://www.openoffice.org/
 [9]: http://xml.openoffice.org/
 [10]: http://erans.blogspot.com/2006/03/bubbles-clean-round-and-really.html