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建议 Google Docs Goes Offline
Google Docs Goes Offline
Though buggy and limited in its current form, this software service has potential as a competitor to Microsoft Office.
Edward N. Albro
Google Docs is adding a key feature that makes it a true competitor to Microsoft Office: offline access. It\\\\\\\'s promising, but the early beta I tested had limitations.
The offline version relies on Google Gears, an offline syncing technology; once Gears is installed, Docs syncs your documents between its servers and your browser. You can then access docs.google.com offline, and all changes you make to documents are saved when you reconnect.
That\\\\\\\'s the theory, at least. Gears installed fine on Internet Explorer (though it didn\\\\\\\'t work for me on Firefox 3), and when I reconnected after making changes offline, it seemed to sync up. But the changes never made it to Google\\\\\\\'s servers; I could see edits when I viewed the document in IE on my own PC, but on other browsers and other PCs, the changes vanished.
I tried again on a second PC, and everything worked fine. I could edit offline, synchronize, and see my changes in other browsers and on other PCs.
The offline tools are limited. You can\\\\\\\'t create a new document, look at a document\\\\\\\'s revision history, change the document style, insert photographs, or check your spelling.
I can work around most of what\\\\\\\'s missing in the offline version (but if you can\\\\\\\'t spell, you may feel differently!). Google needs to do some further polishing to make Docs work seamlessly with Gears, but once it does, this could be a great tool.
Google新利器——Google Docs Offline
Though buggy and limited in its current form, this software service has potential as a competitor to Microsoft Office.虽然目前有许多缺陷，这款软件却有着相当潜力成为微软OFFICE的竞争者。
Google Docs推出了其脱机版本：不用登录到网络。这使它成为微软的一位相当有实力的竞争者。但目前此软件的BETA版本功能不是特别全面。
Google Docs Offline依靠Google Gears这一脱机同步技术。当电脑上安装了Gears时，Gears就会同步本地浏览器和服务器上的文档。在登录到Google Docs时，用户在本地电脑上文档的更改便自动保存到了服务器上。
这也仅仅是理论而已，因为Gears安装在IE上是没问题，但在似乎不能支持我的FIREFOX。我又在脱机时对文档做了更改，当登入Google Docs时，同步确实是在进行。但在服务器上却看不到更改过的文档，除了在IE中和用我的电脑外，在其它电脑上和其它浏览器上，更改不见了！
我又换另一台电脑使用，脱机编辑文档，同步到服务器，再换浏览器和再换台电脑，真好，能找到更改过的文档。
但这个脱机工具还是有不完善的地方，缺少脱机新建文档，查看编辑历史记录，改变文档风格，插入图片和拼写检查等功能。
因此，GOOGLE也许需要对这一软件做进一步的修改和完善。到那时，Google Docs将会是一个非常不错的软件！
