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Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by there »

tocomment wrote: post #14

Maybe this will change how people code. Instead of programmers hanging out in IRC, they can hang out in the code and fix things instead of just complaining :-)

create a mashup with this and github to pull in code from a github url and edit it

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by aneesh »

mseebach wrote: post #26
drm237 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between "something even Google hasn’t been able to do" and "their scaling requirements made it impractical"? When you get past the semantics, it's essentially the same thing. Either way, they're not doing it.

Lack of action doesn't imply inability. That's what's different. A parked car is not a car that's not able to drive. It's a car that's not driving.

The end user only cares whether its driving. If it's not moving, the user doesn't really care why.

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by jonknee »

rapind wrote: post #9
ph0rque wrote: post #3

What would make this application killer for me is if was embeddable in other applications as a widget (think rich-text editor on steroids). This, plus a git-like backend for revision history, would be just absolutely amazing.

Agreed. Imagine this sort of collaboration in the Heroku editor... Or online collaborative versions of Textmate, emcacs, vim, etc. Be nice if they offered textile and markdown rendering.

SubEthaEdit's collaboration engine is licensable (Coda has it), so it's possible something like TextMate could go there. I'd also like to see a Windows package get it because that's a pretty big limitation with SubEthaEdit at the moment.

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by nihilocrat »

ErrantX wrote: post #33
nihilocrat wrote: post #31

Hey, where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, here: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/

Which is a desktop app... ;)

And yet it's the same functionality. Personally, I would prefer a desktop app when working on anything sensitive (i.e. code at work)

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by ErrantX »

nihilocrat wrote: post #36
ErrantX wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a desktop app... ;)

And yet it's the same functionality. Personally, I would prefer a desktop app when working on anything sensitive (i.e. code at work)

yeh I have to agree there.

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by axod »

aaroniba wrote: post #28

People have asked us for a way to try it out with other people, so here's a set of pads for news.yc readers to play with: http://etherpad.com/ep/newsyc For the curious, I added this URL to our running web server in 5 minutes with 12 lines of JavaScript: function render_newsyc_get() { function countUsers(p) { return getCollab().getDocument(p).getNumConnectedUsers(); } var body = BODY({style: 'padding: 20px; font-famil…

Just crashed my safari :/ and now url seems down...

Re: Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

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Post by arthurk »

axod wrote: post #39
aaroniba wrote: post #28

People have asked us for a way to try it out with other people, so here's a set of pads for news.yc readers to play with: http://etherpad.com/ep/newsyc For the curious, I added this URL to our running web server in 5 minutes with 12 lines of JavaScript: function render_newsyc_get() { function countUsers(p) { return getCollab().getDocument(p).getNumConnectedUsers(); } var body = BODY({style: 'padding: 20px; font-famil…

Just crashed my safari :/ and now url seems down...

Same here, WebKit nightly didn't crash but I'm getting a "Lost connection with the EtherPad synchronization server." error.
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