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Re: Surfly - Surf together on the web

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Post by nubela »

this is pretty cool! will be really cool for support/webinars.

I also understand its an early product, because on the spectator's screen, the HTML does not seem to be rendered properly.

With that said, (and as much as i hate to do feature requests), please allow us to speak via the mic. cheers!

Re: Surfly - Surf together on the web

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Post by Robadob »

This is a really good idea, personally it may come in use when working next to someone and they want to copy some code or help you've just located for them. Save sending them the url, and in google hangouts/traditional screenshare the spectator is unable to interact with the webpage (highlight/copy content).

Re: Surfly - Surf together on the web

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Post by nichol4s »

Robadob wrote: post #3

This is a really good idea, personally it may come in use when working next to someone and they want to copy some code or help you've just located for them. Save sending them the url, and in google hangouts/traditional screenshare the spectator is unable to interact with the webpage (highlight/copy content).

Not just that, the quality of screensharing is much lower than the quality you get with Surfly. You can see a comparison here: http://www.surfly.com/blog/2013/11/05/google-helpouts---even...

The example you give is exactly how we use it ourselves to plan milestones and review code with remote workers. Read more here: http://www.surfly.com/blog/2013/10/31/using-surfly-for-remot...

Re: Surfly - Surf together on the web

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Post by nichol4s »

tmikaeld wrote: post #5

Looks just like the open source togetherJS by mozilla. https://togetherjs.com/

The difference is that with TogetherJS you will not be able to handle websites that require login. Surfly can handle that in a secure way.

Next, Surfly just works on any website - without the need to write a single line of code. For example, you can use it right now on GitHub. If you wanted to have such functionality with TogetherJS you would have to modify your website accordingly (i.e., by using a special version of the Ace editor).

Re: Surfly - Surf together on the web

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Post by nichol4s »

JVIDEL wrote: post #7

OP how do you deal with mobile/non-responsive websites? specially when the functionality of the mobile version is considerably limited from the full desktop one.

We send over the state of the DOM of the person who presents to the person that follows. So the guy that follows the session will see the same thing as the guy that controls it. We also synchronise the viewport fe, so if the controller resizes the window and the site adjusts accordingly the follower will see the exact same thing.

We don't have every corner case covered yet - but we're working on it.

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