Sun's Schwartz says AJAX to play a role in OpenOffice. Here's my bet on how.

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maybe a different approach to spreadsheets

How about you pressed a button "new dataset", and entered in a
small spreadsheet a set of results. As part of the creation
wizard, you enter "Sales figures" year "2003" department
"widget".
Then you enter sales by month.
Now you're back at list of datasets, and have "Widget sales
figures 2003" listed in your datasets.

Press one button to get the data presented in different ways:
graph (inc 3d VRML graph), curve fittings, graph compared with
Widget sales figures 2004, or statistical analyses: mean, std
dev,.

Press another button to get google to try to correlate it with a
set of public data such as orange juice sales in california, or the
position of polaris in the sky, perhaps skewed by 4 months.
{ google might be able to correlate against billions of public sets
of data using some fancy search algorithm }.

Press another button to add a calculated "column" (say sales
tax), or another to total all "widget" "sales figures" or all "sales
figures" (widgets and other departments).

See how this would be more powerful than a regular
spreadsheet. By telling the system a little bit more about your
data as you enter it, far simpler and more powerful tools can be
used on the data very easily.

Anything like a graph you viewed would have a button "save to
scratchpad" for insertion for example into a AJAX presentation
tool. The output of the AJAX presentation tool could be a bunch
of pictures you load into Google Picassa and press "slideshow".

Posted by: hipparchus2001   Posted on: 10/24/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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