I've mentioned this informally to a few people, but it came up again in
discussion and I thought maybe I'd bring the idea to a wider audience.
TowTruck (
https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/) is a realtime collaboration
framework developed by Mozilla (but not firefox-specific). It provides the
real-time communication infrastructure for collaboration on websites. It
could be an interesting foundation for something like Flow.
TowTruck has a plug-in architecture for custom editors. Visual Editor
would use this to handle the synchronization within a visual editor widget.
Tow Truck would provide the "find a friend", "real time chat" and
other
collaboration plumbing. Flow would provide the overall UX design for the
collaborative process, especially the non-real-time archival parts.
Anyway, I think Tow Truck is an interesting project, and it would be
interesting to try to avoid reinventing parts of the wheel. I'm interested
in others' thoughts.
--scott
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