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Re:Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for... by bdr on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:41PM (#5420186)
Django, Heroku, Postgres, Backbone, CoffeeScript, Pusher, Redis
Re:Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for... by oaksagelew on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:58PM (#5420623)
Love how you do the text handling - click, with little draggable, resizeable text area with handle; how did you build that - jQueryUI with lots of mods, or something even lower level?

And have you seen paperi.st? (http://paperi.st/) Similar kind of idea as far as text entry - and i'd also love to know how they did it.

Re:Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for... by bdr on Friday March 22, 2013 @04:00AM (#5421841)
Thank you! It's basically jQueryUI + lots of thinking about what different user actions should mean. I hadn't seen paperi.st, but the basic effect isn't hard: just create a new auto-focused input where the user clicks.
Re:Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for... by andrewflnr on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:05AM (#5421466)
Dang, works on iPad too.