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		cake on May 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The technology behind the new Google Docs editor I don't get it. The explanation is confusing to me, on the one side they say they don't rely on the browser as they used to : and the browser takes care of letting the user edit that text and yet they talk about the new GDocs entirely in JavaScript. JavaScript runs on the browser. Can someone explain how the new GDocs is different technically speaking ?

positr0n on May 12, 2010 [–]

They old way they used javascript, but they browser code, not their javascript, handled how the document actually looks on the screen.

The new way their javascript handles everything, including how the document actually looks on the screen.

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