posted by dsk on November 23rd, 2011 at 8:29PM
Check out this gorgeous workflow.
Working on a paper with two other people.
Of course I want to use docs.google.com because it is a gorgeous document creator, browser based and let's me do really really cool stuff. Like what?
Well, as I'm writing it all out, I can share the document with two of my collaborators. I don't have to email them drafts. They don't need to install anything. They can use Linux, Windows, Mac, I don't care. They don't care.
As I'm editing, they can see exactly what I'm changing in real-time. They, themselves can edit the document with minimal contention ( as google docs is smart enough to manage all that ) and I can see their edits and their notes.
What if the internet goes down, or wifi isn't available? Good thing, google docs implements an html5 open standard called "Web Storage", which means my changes, in addition to being synced with the server, are synced to local store and if I choose, also my filesystem, so I can keep working on the file, and still have a local version available.
Working on a paper with two other people.
Of course I want to use docs.google.com because it is a gorgeous document creator, browser based and let's me do really really cool stuff. Like what?
Well, as I'm writing it all out, I can share the document with two of my collaborators. I don't have to email them drafts. They don't need to install anything. They can use Linux, Windows, Mac, I don't care. They don't care.
As I'm editing, they can see exactly what I'm changing in real-time. They, themselves can edit the document with minimal contention ( as google docs is smart enough to manage all that ) and I can see their edits and their notes.
What if the internet goes down, or wifi isn't available? Good thing, google docs implements an html5 open standard called "Web Storage", which means my changes, in addition to being synced with the server, are synced to local store and if I choose, also my filesystem, so I can keep working on the file, and still have a local version available.
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posted by dennisn on November 23rd, 2011 at 8:40PM
Clearly you haven't done much writing in your life. Cool as all that crap sounds, it's pretty fucking useless IMHO. I sure as fuck wouldn't want you changing my shit as I'm writing.
Nevertheless, have you checked if a multi-user document editor/whiteboard already exists? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that many already do. And the only reason they're not popular is cuz they're kinda pointless. (But, slap JS into it, and BAM -- NEW SHINY THING THAT PROMISES TO FILL MY INNER VOID!) SVN/git would be cool to do shared (writing, etc) projects with, too. But hey, we're desperately trying to validate this new thing!!1! So forget all that old archaic dinosaur stuff! Let's invent a JS-wheel!
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