integrating etherpad like.

[athoune]

or a code editor, a shared one.

[tOkeshu]

The feature exists already, it integrates etherpad lite as a widget. However the online version of HiBuddy does not enable this feature.

It has privacy issues as we have to decide wich online instance of etherpad lite is used. Moreover, for the feature to be enabled, we need the API key of the etherpad, which gives access to more than pad creation.

Maybe the solution would be to host our own instance of etherpad lite right next to HiBuddy.

A code editor is not in the scope of HiBuddy though.

[tOkeshu]

After discussing with @ppapadeas I think I have a better vision of what we want to do.

• I will add an etherpad-like feature to HiBuddy that will take advandage of WebRTC's datachannels.
• It will be a simple textarea synchronized between the two participant of the video chat.
• The data will be stored locally via localStorage and you may access the data for later use.

This feature will thus completely replace the etherpad-lite widget. Part of the code is already written in the scratchpad libary.

You can follow the development of this feature on the feature/scratchpad branch.