SearchOpenSource: OpenOffice Expert's Review: On-the-Go Docs with AjaxWrite

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link. ]

"If AjaxWrite were just any new, free word processor, it would be mildly interesting. But it caught my eye because it is an online application written in the hot and useful Ajax language. Here's how to use it and what I encountered when I explored it for the first time.

"Looking for a zippy intro to this article, I wondered about the origins of the name Ajax. Ajax was a Greek hero in the Trojan War who went mad and tried to kill his peers when Odysseus, not he, got the armor of slain Achilles. Athena made Ajax think cattle were his comrades-in-arms, and Ajax killed the herd. When he realized his mistake, he killed himself as an honorable exit..."

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