Mozilla Labs have this week unveiled a new project they have been developing called Mozilla TowTruck which has been designed allow developers to easily add real-time collaboration to a website.
Mozilla TowTruck is implemented using Javascript, so no software or plugins are required install the new service, which has been created to be friendly with existing web pages, while still letting developers customise the experience to meet their needs. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action and learn more.
“TowTruck is a service for your website that makes it surprisingly easy to collaborate in real-time. TowTruck is incredibly easy to set up on your site. All you need to do is include a couple lines of JavaScript and your site has TowTruck tools enabled.
When a user comes to your site, they’ll be able to activate the TowTruck tool and send a link to a friend to start collaborating on the web site.
TowTruck has collaboration features like cursor-mirroring (allowing you to see your friend’s cursor on the screen in real time), collaboratively editing forms and text, browsing through the site, and both text and real-time voice chat.”
For more information on the new Mozilla TowTruck service jump over to the Mozilla Labs website for details. But remember Mozilla TowTruck is currently in its Alphs stage of development and is still work under development, so expect a few bugs and glitches to be to ironed out over the coming weeks and months, before it is officially launched in a final release.
Source: Mozilla
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