As excited about LaTeX in general as the next guy, I think this project has room for improvement until it's ready for prime time.
As a webapp, it has its intrinsic advantage of zero-installation, ubiquitous availability, mobility, etc. However, it also inherits many problems and needs to compete with some really really nice native and free apps, such as TeXShop. It would need to include well-received features available in TeXShop and others, and add some extra values beyond the webapp advantages.
1. Targeting real LaTeX users, I think it makes sense to add some shortcut key or autocompletion for common commands.
2. Make it easy to go back and forth between source and preview PDF. It would be very helpful if it could highlight in the rendering result the text selected in the source view (or just the cursor position). It would even be better if you could scroll to the highlighted spot [see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/317/317300.html]
3. Make it sync with Dropbox and/or Google Docs. Most of the target audience is already using one or both. I prefer Dropbox. If I can still use native app such as TeXShop when it is available and move to ScribTeX when I am somewhere else and still moving back without thinking, I am sold.
4. I am not sure about others, but I'd like to see the prolog (like \documentclass) and epilog (\end{document}) and other boilerplate code auto-generated and configurable from a simple panel and then hided nicely. Using different amount of padding to show the structure of the document (such as show \subsubsection with more padding then \subsection) would also be a very nice feature.
As a webapp, it has its intrinsic advantage of zero-installation, ubiquitous availability, mobility, etc. However, it also inherits many problems and needs to compete with some really really nice native and free apps, such as TeXShop. It would need to include well-received features available in TeXShop and others, and add some extra values beyond the webapp advantages.
1. Targeting real LaTeX users, I think it makes sense to add some shortcut key or autocompletion for common commands.
2. Make it easy to go back and forth between source and preview PDF. It would be very helpful if it could highlight in the rendering result the text selected in the source view (or just the cursor position). It would even be better if you could scroll to the highlighted spot [see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/317/317300.html]
3. Make it sync with Dropbox and/or Google Docs. Most of the target audience is already using one or both. I prefer Dropbox. If I can still use native app such as TeXShop when it is available and move to ScribTeX when I am somewhere else and still moving back without thinking, I am sold.
4. I am not sure about others, but I'd like to see the prolog (like \documentclass) and epilog (\end{document}) and other boilerplate code auto-generated and configurable from a simple panel and then hided nicely. Using different amount of padding to show the structure of the document (such as show \subsubsection with more padding then \subsection) would also be a very nice feature.