In continuation with our development philosophy, EditGrid Beta 5 (rev 2202) blends new features unique to the web with back-end improvement to support conventional spreadsheet functionalities. The most notable new features are:

• [#2707] [#4334] Create more than one spreadsheet under a workbook — right-click at |Sheet 1| to create/rename/delete a spreadsheet
• [#3560] Post to blog — go to Sheet Properties and see how it works!
• [#4105] Stockquote robot for currency exchange
• [#4325] Stockquote robot for world major indices

Other new features include:

• Show |My Workspace| at top navigation bar to logged-in users
• [#3799] Allow user to name and save a new sheet in grid mode
• [#4185] Optimised width of row headers
• [#4303] Allow copying on spreadsheets with read access
• [#4179] Allow search engine to cache HTML version of public-readable spreadsheets
• [#4329] Allow user to opt-in to receive news and announcements
• [#4236] Fast switching between grid mode and sheet properties
• [#4146] Graphical user interface for sheet locking in |My Workspace|
• [#4233] Revamped user removal mechanism for organisation accounts
• [#4101] System messages to registered user
• [#4108] User can now configure his/her own time zone
• [#4304] Send email to invite friends

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#4314] Re-activated rollback to previos revisions
• [#4322] Formula display error upon row insertion
• [#4351] Improved performance of loading Home page
• [#4143] Quick login button for logged-in user to switch to another account
• [#4373] User with read privilege can view revision history
• [#4390] User with write privilege can rollback to a previous revision

Public Beta 4.1 (rev 2073)

• Improved grid loading time by 75% by trimming down JavaScript bundle file size
• [#4318] Import safeguard: restrict import file size to 1MB
• [#4315] Fixed email spreadsheet link
• Fixed bug on import with an empty string in UTF-8
• [#4305] Fixed bug where range formatting would apply style of first cell to rest of the range
• [#4302] Fixed bug where colour is not imported correctly
• Fixed bug where line-break is not displayed correctly
• [#4247] Context menu in FireFox with certain extensions installed

As anticipated, Google released its own spreadsheet. Our target is to do a web spreadsheet better than Google. Google’s size and innovative workforce allows it to do and excel in many things. While we at EditGrid put in all our passion and innovation here, the real competition is about to begin.

Hi, Microsoft, when will you join the party as well?