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You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you?

Although I have to say, the editor that pops up for "Rewrite selection" looks extremely nice, although you might get in trouble for basically aping the look and feel of Word.

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Yeah, it's a smart move; motivating the HN community to research your competitors for you is very resourceful

regarding comment above: You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you?

http://jwz.livejournal.com/847649.html?thread=16493345#t1649...

I think you want to distance yourself from Word as much as possible. Look at Google docs even. The interface could use a sleeker look. But I like the idea and the execution a lot.

The part that looks like Word is TinyMCE. It's a great package, the best of the many editors we tried (including homegrown, twice.)

I disagree. Why?

Well for one, couldn't Microsoft complain that the interface to one of their products is copyrighted?

I'm surprised nobody has compared this to google's wave yet.

If you haven't, you should go check out the demo -- I'm not for sure yet how much feature overlap there is, but their demo exhibits a wow factor that is undeniable.

It's long, but skip around and you're sure to hit on at least some of the important bits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

It could easily be a gadget or extension for google wave, the protocol is already there.

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