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March 26, 2007

Google Docs and CSS: Why not?

I've been using Google Docs to write documents that are collaborative. It's a good first gen product, and I enjoy using it, but it would take a giant step forward if it let me apply a CSS style sheet to the docs I'm composing.

This is such an obvious idea that there must be something obviously wrong with it. [Tags: google css wrong_in_public_again]

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 26, 2007 12:51 PM


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Here's another "why not?" idea I had regarding Google Docs.

The problem:

The function "send this page to a friend" is usually not usable because the sender has to remember (or copy paste) the address of the friend.

The idea:

If a person is at a Google Docs document AND is logged in to her Google account, the Gmail address book is available for sending the link to her contacts.

Posted by: Hanan Cohen | March 26, 2007 01:28 PM


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Posted by: Jay Fienberg | March 26, 2007 06:55 PM


I completely agree. I have requested this feature via their help. What would also be sweet is if the output of Google Docs was XHTML 1.0 (or even better 1.1). I've noticed <font> tags in the markup.

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Posted by: chloe | March 27, 2007 09:55 AM


The amount of stuff you could do with CSS would be limited unless they provided a way to set the class names on things. That UI would be non-trivial.

Posted by: mark | March 28, 2007 07:27 AM


Mark, limited would be better than nothing.

And, if Google opened up Docs, I bet some clever and generous people would do the non-trivial work of adding a way of classing elements.

Posted by: David Weinberger | March 29, 2007 08:09 AM


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