At 18:02 -0500 20/1/14, Hoffkids wrote:
Hi all,
I apologize if this is not the best place to ask but everyone here
is so helpful.
Does anyone know if it is possible for 2 people in different
locations (2 different houses), to pull up a web page at the same
time and even interact with it if the site is built that way?
I know all about screen sharing and that is good for me and my tutor
students so I can watch them do some math things on some sites, but
I recently found a shared whiteboard classroom type thing and they
have a feature called web page.
When you click it, it prompts you for a URL and when you type it in,
the shared whiteboard becomes that web page.
Both people can see it and i think they can kind of (not with
perfect success) click the items on the page etc.
In short, I am looking for a single place where myself and a student
can pull up a site or sites and both see them and both click thru
etc.
I use one for my online tutoring but it does not have this web page
feature. I am looking to combine what I have with this other
feature either thru my site or most likley thru a 3rd party site.
possible?
by the way the one I saw this almost succeed at was
New Twiddla Meeting
click the icon called “web page”
Obviously two users can pull up the same web page and interact with
it independently, so I presume you mean interact jointly, with either
being able to see what the other is doing.
You can’t do this with just a web page. A web server can only send
data in response to a request, although there can be multiple
repeated responses to one request that change over time - exchange
rate sites do this all the time. So it may be possible to produce two
web pages to be viewed in two windows, one for each direction, but it
would be horribly complex.
A web server can’t just send a page to a browser unrequested. Even if
it could, the NAT server in the router wouldn’t know what to do with
the packets because it wouldn’t have an initial outgoing request to
load its reply redirection tables.
‘twiddla’ will not be an Apache-like web server. It will be specially
written for the purpose. It says as much in the FAQs. Note that there
is a paid ‘Pro’ version which can be free for education purposes.
If you need something beyond twiddla’s capabilities you could use
something like LogMeIn to give the other user access to a machine you
have for the purpose (it holding nothing of value). You could then
use it directly and the other person use it over the net. Used in
conjunction with Skype or some non-M$ alternative, it can give a
usable system.
David
& btw, there is an OffTopic section here.
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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
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