[barcampgr] Topics

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 07:41 -0700, Matt Heusser wrote:
> >Google Docs spreadsheet should be called a 
> >list-maker instead of a spreadsheet. 
> You try writing a spreadsheet engine in Javascript sometime!

No, that really doesn't sound like fun. :)

> Our team has Dan Bricklin, who invented the spreadsheet, Audrey Tang,
> the lead comitter for the haskell project, and me, and I don't bring
> down the average IQ of the team by all /that/ much. :-)
> I'd be interested in what you want to do with Google Spreadsheets, and
> if you /can/ do that with Sociacalc.

My experience is that as soon as the document gets large performance
gets *BAD* and even becomes unstable.  This may be [theoretically] a
deficiency in the brower(s) but certainly counts against these as a
"solution".  If I have a SS a couple of tabs with ~10,000 lines and I
want to do some COUNTIF/VLOOKUP kind of stuff it is ugly.  And in the
editor the lag when editing a large (even > 10 page document) is pretty
bad.  I can't imagine that some enterprises provide that as a solution
to their users [are the *also* providing M$-Office? If so, how real are
the G-Doc deployments?]  From what I've seen I'd expect the IT
department to be hung from the rafters if they tried to force users down
that path.

I'm just talking about G-docs, I've never tried Sociacalc.