[FM Discuss] live collaborative editing

[sophea]

maybe an open equivalent of something like subethaedit? but with versioning?
.s

2009/2/18 Douglas Bagnall <douglas at paradise.net.nz>

> 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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