Re:Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)
by jbyers on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @11:40AM
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What a fun service. I can't remember the last time I used the word "fun" in reference to a plain text editor. :)
It's really interesting to watch the POSTs fly by and consider the implications of out-of-order updates, breaks in the open downstream "comet" channel, interleaving potentially conflicting text from different clients. A lot of difficult tradeoffs that they seem to have made good -- or at least plausible -- decisions on.
It's really interesting to watch the POSTs fly by and consider the implications of out-of-order updates, breaks in the open downstream "comet" channel, interleaving potentially conflicting text from different clients. A lot of difficult tradeoffs that they seem to have made good -- or at least plausible -- decisions on.