Adobe Buzzword … Sigh
Wow, things are certainly interesting on the productivity application front these days. Today I see news that Adobe is buying a really interesting —if currently flawed — new web application.
This screenshot shows both how beautiful the application is, and also how limited.
So it is definitely the most beautiful word-processor I’ve seen recently. It also supports ODF.
But … no styles support … at all! This is a worrying trend I’m seeing; reinvent tools for the 21st century by stepping back in time to the 1980s.
Alas, Buzzword is still in development, so I will hold out some hope that they can correct ship and implement elegant styles support before final rollout.
Oh, I would like to add that it’s really nice to see professional quality Adobe fonts like Minion and Myriad in Buzzword and the technically-similar presentation application SlideRocket rather than the absolutely atrocious Arial and Times we typically see. Kudos on that.
another update: So I got an account, and am playing with Buzzword. One word: wow! Also, they will be adding styles support; if it’s anything like the rest of the application, I’m sure they’ll do a good job with it.
