Monday, October 12, 2009

Wave similarities

I went through a presentation given by Lars Rasmussen for Google Wave. And I found striking similarities to a project I had dome with Enthiosys called Prune the Product Tree. The idea of PTPT (as we called it) was giving a roadmap to a product by live collaboration. This collaboration was done using manipulation of images (drag, drop of items in a canvas using SVG/VML) and chats between users. It also showed the online and offline activity of a user had revisions of the stuff he did.

Playback was some thing Luke had in mind. As in the users who see the entire collaborated content could playback the evolution of the product by just the click of a button. The playback would continuously get the data and then playback each and every action taken by the users. These action items may vary from adding, moving, and deleting the items(fruits/leaves) or comments. Cloning and editing of the product tree is also possible.

The difference was that it did not use HTML5 but used the native SVG (firefox/chrome/safari) or VML (IE)

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