Yeah - you should be able to do realtime collaborative editing in pretty much any application, so long as you can describe the OT semantics for your data. Plain text, rich text and JSON support should cover 95% of applications out there.
I'm really excited to see what people make with it. Brett - You're right about wavelets. It should be possible to compile wave's OT code into javascript and pull that in to sharejs as another data type. You could run the wave editor on top of sharejs with a bit of work. Torben - is this compatible at all with the stuff you've been working on? You gave me the idea to do OT for JSON - though I think my implementation is quite different from yours. [On that note, I'd really appreciate comments about my spec for JSON OT: https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS/wiki/JSON-Operations ] Do you think I should implement federation in sharejs? A classic client-server model will work fine for most sharejs applications I can think of, and I'm going to focus on that first. I really like the idea of federation though - its a great way to authenticate users & deliver notifications. -J On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Thomas Wrobel <darkfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is pretty darn cool. > For our own project we pretty much need all of wave (at least, > concurrent federated multiple editors each user having their own > subscriptions to various waves, different users posting seperate > wavelets with in it). > > Still, I can see *so* many uses for this. You could, for example, use > it to concurrently edit 3d data stored in a xml like fornat (x3d for > example) - multiplayer 3dsmax anyone? :P > > -Thomas > > > ~~~~~~ > Reviews of anything, by anyone; > www.rateoholic.co.uk > Please try out my new site and give feedback :) > > > > On 10 May 2011 17:18, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear wave refugees! >> >> As many of you know, I really want wave's technology to be usable in >> other situations. So I made ShareJS - a NodeJS server & javascript >> client for doing concurrent editing with arbitrary data. >> >> Here's a simple concurrent wiki built on top of sharejs: >> http://sharejs.org:8000/wiki/Main >> Open it in a couple browser windows & you can do google wave style live >> editing. >> >> Its wave's OT technology, rewritten in coffeescript. >> >> The software stack is type-agnostic. At the moment I'm working on >> writing OT code for arbitary JSON objects, so you should be able to >> whip up complex concurrent apps like route planners, spreadsheets, ... >> or, whatever :) >> >> Its pretty early days for sharejs - there's currently no undo support, >> no authentication and no rich text. You should help out. At ~2000 >> lines of code (+ tests), sharejs has 100 times less code than wave in >> a box. And its written in coffeescript (need I say more?) >> >> If you can think of anything particularly cool that you want to do >> with sharejs, drop me an email. I'll tell you which features are >> missing and how you can help write them. Lets make wave's legacy a >> whole bunch of awesome software. >> >> Code: >> https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS >> >> MOAR DEMOS: >> http://sharejs.org:8000/ >> >> Cheers >> Joseph >> >
