Compiler reader and Miami University student Joe Pestro wrote in to tell us about the "unofficial" desktop interface he put together for Google Docs.
The Google Web Desktop brings those familiar drag-and-drop desktop behaviors to Google's popular office web apps for docs and spreadsheets. It doesn't change any of the applications' basic functionality, but it makes it easier and a little more fun to organize your documents. It also opens each document in its appropriate application using an animated Ajax pop-up window.
Joe says he used Prototype for the drag-and-drop behaviors and LightWindow for the Ajax overlay. The applications and your own document data are accessed via the Google Docs Data APIs.
You'll need to authorize third-party access to your Google account in order to use the desktop. But once you do, you'll be rocking and rolling. Or in this case, dragging and dropping.
