Does anyone know of an HTML-friendly equivalent of this? I.e., something similar that allows pasting/editing HTML?
http://scratchpad.io might be what you're looking for.
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#12Would be nice if each user had their own cursor/state and different users could modify different parts of the doc at the same time without causing crazy to happen.
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#13Does anyone know of an HTML-friendly equivalent of this? I.e., something similar that allows pasting/editing HTML?
Plunker is a collaborative html/css/js/coffee-script/typescript/less/etc... editor: http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=preview&s=YDQtgmV5y7I6EQfJ
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#14Does anyone know of an HTML-friendly equivalent of this? I.e., something similar that allows pasting/editing HTML?
Firepad will eventually support rich-text copy/paste and import/export as HTML (export is actually already supported through the API, but not exposed through the existing UI), as well as lists, paragraph indent, and all of the other features that you'd want. They just didn't make it in for the v1 release. :-)
As for similar projects that are already more HTML-friendly, maybe check out Etherpad[1]? It has HTML import / export, though I haven't tested it out.
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#15Would be nice if each user had their own cursor/state and different users could modify different parts of the doc at the same time without causing crazy to happen.
Everyone does have their own cursor state and can edit the document separately (even in offline mode). People are testing the limits of it right now though, so you're probably seeing a fair amount of "select all" + "delete" and other annoying behavior.
If you want to try it without other people messing with it. Click the "Private Firepad" link in the upper right corner.
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#16I am unable to scroll down on the page without it jumping back up to the animated demo thingy. Chrome 25 OSX.
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#17this is some entertaining shit going down in the 'chat'
It's complete carnage, but the actual tech seems to work well.
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#18I am unable to scroll down on the page without it jumping back up to the animated demo thingy. Chrome 25 OSX.
Ooops. When the editor has focus, it tries to keep your cursor visible when it moves. And your cursor can end up moving due to other people's edits.
I tweaked the page to not auto-focus the editor. Thanks!
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#19Is this actually a text editor, or is it a social experiment?
I realize those are not mutually exclusive options.
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#20okay, after working in this for a couple minutes I found it to be AWESOME!!! great job guys. Obviously, there's a ton of people on it right now, and the proverbial dicks just pasting 10101 all over to annoy, but in a team i could see how this would be really awesome. While working on it there was a short minute where the dicks let off and i really got to see how great this can be for teaming up to iteractively write code.
Again awesome app!!