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Cool stuff! I've looked a bit at what it uses: shapes drawn are vectors, the app uses Raphael ( http://raphaeljs.com/ ) for drawing, and Pusher ( http://pusher.com/ ) for whiteboard syncing.
Regarding the Pusher web site, am I the only one who cannot resist the temptation of loading up Firebug to verify whether the counter is for real or "interpolated"?
It currently starts approximately at 14,230,617,000
I work in a distributed office, and over the past few days I've been trying to find a "concept mapper", which helps us to make projects more concrete through flowcharts etc. The problem that I keep on facing is that the web apps which dominate the current market just don't cut my needs. They don't allow for proper exploration, and collaboration is a frustrating progress. We would gladly pay for a tool that doesn't ge…
I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seem to have been a few very similar sites/ideas posted here over the last few days. Well done for making it work in IE though =)
The front ends seem to get desynchronised when two incompatible concurrent edits happen; this is a difficult issue to resolve, but one solution would be to change the data flow so local edits are drawn by the client on a transparent canvas, get sent to the server, and then get drawn on the underlying main canvas only when they are sent back from the server. The transparent canvas can be reset by the client at that po…
This is what we do for http://300lin.es ;) edit: My God, it's full of cocks.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seem to have been a few very similar sites/ideas posted here over the last few days. Well done for making it work in IE though =)
Not working in IE 8 for me at least :) Works fine in Firefox. Great app, would be very interesting to try it on one of them digital whiteboards.
The way I did this in javascript was to create an array of zoom in/out and the four directions - then you add or subtract from the array based on intensity of gestures over time - even keyboard action keys (+/-) can have momentum this way by adding when there is continuous keypresses - I was pleased how it turned out in the end.