A real-time collaborative HTML/CSS editor

Shut this link down asap pls. On Safari, it completely takes over my browser (I was on a different tab when the page loaded and took over). Had to restart in order to get my browser back.

This is VERY annoying.

Xcelerate2• 14 years ago

Same here. Had to restart a 4 hour download.

CoryG89• 14 years ago

lol, it or someone on there sent me to google.com somehow.

ronreiter• 14 years ago

haha this is fun.

ilaksh• 14 years ago

I think this could really be fun and very useful if you have mature ethical adults on. You can try this one if you want http://jlongster.com:4007/noassholes

simcop23872• 14 years ago

I am really sorry about the copy paste i accidentally did that made everything red and yellow... I thought i was in my private pad to test something.

It came from http://www.w3schools.com/css3/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_ani...

munchor• 14 years ago

So many people selecting everything and deleting, real mature people.

loteck2• 14 years ago

Best way to think of this would be like an interactive pastebin. The more people on one pad, the more useless it becomes. But for 2 people troubleshooting it would be great.

jlongster5• 14 years ago

Oh my gosh, seriously. The global pad just turned into a bunch of lolcats and script kiddies.

loteck2• 14 years ago

perhaps if the starter of the pad can set a password that has to be entered the first time ESC is hit for that pad? sorry for the armchair feature requesting.. i think the idea has promise.

gkoberger• 14 years ago

This would be great for interviewing front-end candidates. There's a few out there already that let you share code, however this lets everyone see the results instantly.

jlongster5• 14 years ago

Yes! As I'm watching this unfold, I'm realizing that this would be great for asking XSS questions too.

cheshire137• 14 years ago

How was this built? Seems like Meteor could be an option.

jlongster5• 14 years ago

See the "about" link at the top. I used share.js [1], which is a great Operational Transform library, with the Ace Editor. With a little bit of js, I made the page auto-update with the contents.

share.js really made this easy.

[1] http://sharejs.org/

useful• 14 years ago

<SCRIPT>a=/XSS/ alert(a.source)</SCRIPT>

basic injection works, it doesnt properly screen input

zaptheimpaler2• 14 years ago

Wooooow, it took me about 2 seconds to go from this is kinda cool I wonder how its built to giggling and spamming "PENIS". This is the best!

apokusin• 14 years ago

Is this open-sourced? I'd like to fork this and use internally for workflow improvement.

This is PILF (Project I'd Like to Fork)

PILF Link: https://github.com/jlongster/ahoy

zaptheimpaler2• 14 years ago

My rails apps bring all the boys to the engineyard.

hhaidar• 14 years ago

Something like this works: <img src="/derp.png" onerror="alert(1)" />

endlessvoid94• 14 years ago

Isn't it fun building web apps nowadays?

The internet is unfortunately not kind to beginners. My sympathies.

I'd love to see this in action, though.

Xcelerate2• 14 years ago

I would just like to thank the utter MORON who put the infinite while loop alert box. No option to close it, can't switch to other tabs. I had to restart a 4 hour download thanks to you.

est• 14 years ago

now it redirects to 4chan /b/

d0m• 14 years ago

As with most things in life, you can't control what morons are doing.

However, you can control how it affects you. For instance:

- Chrome asks you if you want to ignore dialog boxes after a couple ones pop. - There are excellent "Download managers" to let you start again if it crashes or to overall have a better control. - Lots of hackers disable javascript by default, and only enable it on trusted websites.

A real-time collaborative HTML/CSS editor

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