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An in-depth look at ajaxWrite
The criticisms are, in part, the same problems you find with any web-based application. Namely, keyboard shortcuts
don't always work (or get implemented), browser-specific technology (in this case, Firefox 1.5), and of course some
folks raise security issues with the whole ajax thing... But Extremetech gets very specific in criticisms of ajaxWrite, which we mentioned
earlier. It's a top-to-bottom review of the service, and the results aren't great. Then again, I see all of the
ajaxLaunch stuff as being more proof-of-concept. Why it isn't ajaxLaunchBeta is beyond me. After all, Beta is the new
black. All ajaxWrite makes me want is Writely to emerge from the Google merge.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
