Gliffy : Web based version of MS-Visio done with Flex
August 5th, 2006 . by polyGeekOne by one our trusted Office apps are going web based. The latest I’ve seen is Gliffy - a nice little replacement for MS-Visio. (Read review)
So we have the word processor Writely; a spreadsheet app from Google Spreadsheets - which leaves much to be desired, the aforementioned Gliffy, and I’m sure many others that I’ve not heard of.
Personally I find Gmail to be the greatest competitor to MS. With the added feature that you can now use your own domain name through Gmail and of course Gmail has a built in calendar and chat client with voice capabilities.
What we are missing is a suite of apps all in one nice location where all the files are stored on a server somewhere. I want to keep my Photoshop files on the local hard drive just because they are typically very large but most everything else could be plopped into a server where I can access them from anywhere. I’ve already started using Adobe’s JamJar to store my Flash (FLA/AS) files so that I can work on them at home and work.
The question isn’t if but when someone will produce a serious suite of browser based Office apps. What I’m interested in is wheather it will be AJAX or Flex/Flash that takes control of the UI.
Hi Dan,
Thank you for mentioning Gliffy on your blog. I wanted to let you know that we built Gliffy using OpenLaszlo, not Flex.
regards
Chris Kohlhardt
Co-founder, Gliffy Inc.
Hey Dan -
And likewise, thanks for mentioning JamJar. It was build totally with Flex2. The question you pose about a serious office suite product is a good one - but just to be clear - it could be built with much of the product being written in AJAX and still have a great U/I produced with Flex2. Yes, we can all get along…
Best,
BenB
“once upon a JamJar”
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