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Sure. And now you need thousands of lines of JS to make it cooperative in real time.
by ItsTooMuch 4y ago
Sure. And now you need thousands of lines of JS to make it cooperative in real time.
- grey-area 4y agoThat's not a requirement for most people, versions and locking is fine. There are certainly refinements that can be added with JS, but JS is not a requirement, and certainly is not for rendering an editable page.
- ItsTooMuch 4y agoWe're talking about programming apps such as Google docs. It is a hard requirement. Your reply is completely useless from technical perspective. Sorry-not-sorry to be so blunt but I have no sympathy for "yeah you can do it without any JS if you remove all features". Let's just go a little further and throw away our computers - we can send carrier pigeons to each other, right? And what's this paper stuff? Useless! Stone tablets 4ever! And as a user, it is a hard requirement for me too. I never want to go back to locking and versions, that's absolutely terrible and completely kills the workflow I have with my colleagues. Collaborative docs editing is single most awesome development of the modern web and users are choosing the otherwise not-so-good Google Docs solely based on this feature. Perhaps not every user needs it - but there are countless users that do. If I wanted to edit without collaboration I'd use Word - much better UX and document editing capabilities... Sadly no truly working collaboration - it's too much like locking/versions, so it's not an option. I'd rather use collaborative raw text editor than the best of the best locking/versioned WYSIWYGs.