[FM Discuss] live collaborative editing

[Joshua Facemyer]

Really?  Is there a live site somewhere to demo?

adam hyde wrote:
> Aco made a previous wiki/CMS called TamTam and it had this
> functionality. It was pretty impressive. 
>
> adam
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:44 +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
>   
>> Joshua Facemyer wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> What if we had a live collaborative editing system?  I mean, two people
>>> or more could theoretically work on the same document, right?  I know
>>> what you're thinking: too much work, nothing available like that to
>>> borrow from, too many problems, etc.
>>>
>>> It would be much like Inkscape's whiteboard
>>> tool (which is currently borked) - only for text.  
>>>       
>> It would be exactly like Sugar's Write activity, where several remote
>> authors can work on the same document.  You see cursors flitting about
>> your page, adding and removing words.
>>
>> But that is not web based, using instead Telepathy instead of http and
>> Abiword instead of the browser, and there is nothing tangible we could
>> borrow from it.  A web version would be very much harder and less well
>> formed.  Example issues: the browser and OS may not like the idea of
>> multiple cursors in one document; http, the DOM, and browser editors are
>> not really suited for rapid continuous update; different browsers create
>> different code from the same input.  So, yeah, not something to work on yet.
>>
>>
>> Douglas
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