Re:Surfly's co-browsing technology
by javajosh on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:17PM
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Yeah, founded a startup based on this idea in 2006 or so, called WeBrowse. The technology wasn't quite ready although I got pretty far with a prototype based on DOMMutationListener and XHR.
Pretty clearly something like this needs to exist, and it will probably not be nearly as useful as it's inventors think it will be. Screen-sharing is more general, and the niche for low-entropy real-time synchronization of browser state feels pretty small right now. But who knows? Heck, I thought the iPad was going to be a giant flop.
Pretty clearly something like this needs to exist, and it will probably not be nearly as useful as it's inventors think it will be. Screen-sharing is more general, and the niche for low-entropy real-time synchronization of browser state feels pretty small right now. But who knows? Heck, I thought the iPad was going to be a giant flop.