Couldn't help myself but to try this out. Visit www.fiddlerelf.com for the real thing. Interestingly enough, the interface used to create this page is pretty intuitive. It no doubt signals Google's inevitable plunge into a suite of desktop applications that run in your browser. Operating system what?
Let us have a look at our options:
- Buttons in a clear place on the page, that provide the basic word processing/font abilities like bold, italics, colors, as well as different fonts and font sizes.
- Buttons to add images, links, headings, sub headings, unordered lists (this list).
- An "Edit HTML" feature that, unsirprisingly, allows for the editting of quasi-raw HTML. This feature so far is a little odd, because it allows you to only edit the HTML for the particular element of the page currently being worked on, not the whole thing.
I already like this interface, not especially for creating a webpage, but for creating a document in general. Let's get our hopes up for a web-based version of Microsoft Word that allows the creation of a document in open doc format and saves to your harddrive, or in the future after Google has it's way, your virtual harddriee located somewhere on the web. For our purposes here, let's call it a softdrive. That my friends, would be awesome.
On a strictly web-interface note however, and this is one of my biggest gripes with Google, this page has (at the time writing) 15 markup validation errors. Blogger has the same sort of problems if you don't tinker with the HTML template yourself. As far as I can tell, you cannot do that with Google Page Creator. As far as Google's web presence, their pages look nice and clean, but they break all kinds of standards everywhere. Google Page Creator is no different, but in this case, it would be everyone's broken pages, not just Google's.