#spreadsheets

spreadsheets are hugely successful. Felienne Hermans, who has spent her career studying spreadsheets, attributes this success to "their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model": the spreadsheet shows you its result as soon as you open it, and it requires no steps to run other than to install Excel and double-click the file.

Tabletop takes a Google Spreadsheet and makes it easily accessible through JavaScript. With zero dependencies!

Tabletop takes a Google Spreadsheet and makes it easily accessible through JavaScript. With zero dependencies!

"I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined."

"it would be useful to be able to access data over http and use it in cell references."

"What happens if we take the next step and put our spreadsheets on the Web rather than keeping them local?"