collaborative editor

Overview: Let users to edit a node at the same time.

Description: I proposed that last GSoC(Refactor Collaborative Editor), using one of VCS, Comet or AJAX. But now, like chyatt comment, there is google-mobwrite. And now it seems really a better idea(awesome? :p).

Mentors:

• needed

Difficulty: Easy?

I've written a module, Image Overlay, to allow users to "draw" shapes on images with JQuery UI & canvas, and save the result as an image node. (Try it out.) Shapes are draggable and resizable. I've kind of stalled at this point, and could use some help, so I think I'll be applying as a student. I think this module could provide very useful tool to many drupal sites, including social sites (photos), techinical sites (notes & schematics), educational sites (maps, historical battleplans), and many others I haven't yet thought of.

My proposal is to expand and update Image Overlay:
EDITED to update timeline, show tables and added image of control and links to screenshots. EDITED on March 29th 1:15pm EDT, to add mockups.

Position: Web Managing Editor, Travel Agent Central
Location: New York City

Questex Media Group, a Boston-based B2B media company, has a brand-new, thrilling opportunity for a hands-on, web-savvy editor to coordinate the editorial, user-generated content, art, multi-media, production processes and workflow to produce TravelAgentCentral.com, which is undergoing a major redesign and will be moved to a Drupal platform. This is the perfect position for someone who is creative and passionate about writing, the travel industry, and digital media.

http://docs.google.com

This looks like where we want to go. I haven't had a chance to test the SoC module yet, but this one seems like a winner.
-M

I am not 'JS or 'Ajax' developer myself but I just spotted the 'JCE Utilities Mambot' jQuery integration of WYSWYG editor. I thought I should post here.

Since Drupal jQuery is in the core Drupal5, to integrate a 'simple' jQuery WYSWYG editor ~alternative to TinyMCE and HTMLarea (which reqires a 3rd party code) would be possible idea i presume.

'JCE Layout Manager'
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/

some screenshots
image browser and attachment
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/sort.jpg
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/window2.jpg

JCE Joomla Content editor is overkill like the Joomla itself -imo- But I a WYSWYG editor with basic HTML tag marking + image/media/file browser&attachment functionality would greatly help to improve Drupal on that front.

Below you'll find a summary of some the email exchange between me and Ernest. It would be good if anyone interested commented on the various issues discussed there. Reading through that again makes me feel like a chatterbox. No one is perfect :)

Ernest: I'll go back to the crossbrowser details once we see the collaborative edition working on the screen as we said, even if it's only in FF for now.

Vlado: Are the cross-browser problems mainly related to design mode? Can the design mode be avoided, at least for the time being?

Ernest The issues I posted yesterday concerned only to the iform creation and design mode. I don't see now a means to avoid the design mode, do you?

I just want to draw your attention to SOC: collaborative editor. It is a summer of code project to create a (surprise, surprise) a collaborative editor for drupal. If you are interested, please consider giving feedback to Ernest. This will help him make better progress and bring an interesting and very useful functionality to Drupal.

The files uploaded for this project so far are collaborative_editor.module and drupal.collaborative_editor.js under collaborative_editor module folder

Brief summary of the first steps:
- Test different hook functions: Done
- Test asyncronous calls: Done
- Insert iframe (create content subsection): Done - Current phase // it works in FF
- Insert asyncrounous calls to refresh the iframe content (heartbeat): Comming soon

The current stage (insert iframe) has the following pending issues in order to be crossbrowser: