Google Docs HTLM5 Rewrite sets sights on Microsoft Office users

oogle has rewritten its Google Docs code using HTML5 and a new JavaScript layout, to improve the speed of its offline editing functionality within its online Docs applications.

Google hopes these changes will make its Docs messaging and collaboration tools more suitable for today’s office workers, many of which have been using Microsoft Office or similar applications.

Google Apps Manager Anil Sabharwal said in his blog post:

The new Google Docs editors will take advantage of faster rendering engines in modern browsers as well as new web standards like HTML5.

At the moment workers create documents and print out or e-mail them to co-workers to edit. These are then e-mail them back to the document creator, who adds more changes, Anil told eWEEK.

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