Etherpad-Lite

What is Etherpad Lite? Etherpad lite is a really-real time collaborative editor spawned from the Hell fire of Etherpad. We're reusing the well tested Etherpad easysync library to make it really realtime. Etherpad Lite is based on node.js what makes it much leigther and more stable than the original Etherpad. Our hope is that this will encourage more users to install a realtime collaborative editor. A smaller and well documented codebase makes it easier for developers to improve the code

Why use Etherpad Lite?

Tiny server hardware footprint
Pure Javascript client and server side
No nasty dependancies
Simplfied interface
Easy to embed
Well documented
Better support for third party editors

What isn't available YET when compared to Etherpad?

Timeslider
Import/Export
Clear authorship colours
Upload files
View Saved revisions
Chat
Pad management
User management
Plugin framework

Installation

download latest node.js version from http://nodejs.org/ and build it with this instructions https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation
install npm [curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh]
install socket.io [npm install socket.io]

Start

cd bin
./run.sh
Open your web browser and visit http://IPSERVER:9001

Contribute

Look at the TODO list at https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/wiki/TODO You can get in touch via petermartischka-at-googlemail.com A mailinglist/irc channel will follow later

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