Douglas Crockford proposes that loading JSON documents be moved directly into the browser, in much the same way that XMLHttpRequest is. There are many advantages to this (which Crockford outlines) including increased security and the fact that JSON has become the way to load data into the browser for AJAX applications.

We've done similar work here using the SCRIPT tag to do cross site JSON loading. Crockford's proposal would obsolete this (and we'd be happy about it).

You can read the proposal here. Hopefully some bright Firefox and IE gurus will pick up the torch for this one.

Writely is no more -- it's now been renamed to "Google Docs" and packaged with "Google Spreadsheets" (just in time for Office 2.0). TechCrunch has the story here, where Arrington notes that Google isn't the only game in town:

Notably absent is the ability to embed spreadsheets directly into writely documents, a feature already offered by Zoho, which has been furiously updating its own office suite (Google says this feature is coming).

Missing from Spreadsheets is the abilitity to post as JSON, which would have been brilliant for controlling mashups.