I suspect it is harder than you think. Have a go, and let us know how you get on. I'd love to see a simple, light-weight, elegant alternative to Google Docs.
Thanks, I didn't mean it's trivial, but it's not a hard technical problem (anymore) to do that on the web.
Not sure if I'll be working on this, though, because there are so many (commercial) services providing this already. Sure, you might think that Google Docs could be more lightweight and elegant, but for many people it's working fine and that 10% improvement on Google Docs is definitely too much work for a tiny open-source project.
I was talking about basic functionality, just as you were in your first comment. The title of this contribution didn't talk about a poor man's Google Docs by chance.
