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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by throwawayboise on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:26PM (#27132120)
The killer feature of Google Docs is the real-time collaboration. People willingly gave up a lot of editing and layout functionality to get that. It was so much better than sending drafts of documents back and forth in email.
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by rcxdude on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:43PM (#27132313)
That and just being able to send one to anyone to collaborate on it quickly. That's the big thing that makes web apps so compelling.
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