On 9/5/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
writely.com has good real time collaborative editing too.
Actually it's pretty bad - I tried it for Wikinews together with Messedrocker. Too slow. SynchroEdit seemed more mature last time I tried.
However, the client side needs are simply too much for Wikipedia
You would never require it, of course. However, if two users are editing the same page, and both have client side collaboration capability, there's no need not to switch into real-time mode. Saving the page would still trigger an edit conflict if an "old style user" is editing the page at the same time.