# Looking for shared, extendable Whiteboard plugin in browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 6, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-shared-extendable-whiteboard-plugin-in-browser/53452 "2006-02-06T08:25:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sapzz)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-shared-extendable-whiteboard-plugin-in-browser/53452/1 "2006-02-06T08:25:37Z")
Hi all, I am building a network application which will enable peer to peer communication.The application is build using ruby on rails. I am attempting to build a white board which will allow simultaneous and syncronous developing and editing of Images. I tried adobe SVG pluggin and other network image generation tools.I need to integrate these tools with my ruby applications. my problems are 1. How do I display applications written in c++/java script in the browser 2. Adobe SVG pluggin is a exe. How do I render it in the browser and syncronize the building of images on the network 3. Are there some other applications or pluggins which I can integrate with ruby on rails and implement this shared white board in my application Thanks Sapna ---
**Author:** ![sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sapzz)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-shared-extendable-whiteboard-plugin-in-browser/53452/2 "2006-02-07T03:26:48Z")
DÅ?a Pondelok 06 Február 2006 08:23 sapzz napísal: > are > > 1. How do I display applications written in c++/java script in the > browser With Great Difficulty ™. As far as I know, the only way of deploying native code over the web is ActiveX, and I don’t know if you want to go there. As for applications in JavaScript, DHTML (give or take AJAX, depends on what you really need) is your best bet for this. Expect bugs, and know the content of [quirksmode.org](http://quirksmode.org) by heart if you plan on supporting IE6 properly for the more advanced (read: flashy) things. > 1. Adobe SVG pluggin is a exe. How do I render it in the browser and > syncronize the building of images on the network As for the SVG plugin, I think it’s something all the users of your application will have to install in their browsers. I admit I’m slightly guessing here, because I don’t have much actual experience with SVG on either side, consumer or author. As for over-the-net drawing, I think you’re once again looking at AJAX, unless you know you can neglect the browser reloads and the gruesome amounts of overhead downloading an SVG image over and over again involves. As for question 3, it’s a bit too generic for me to be able to answer. David V. ---
**Author:** ![sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@sapzz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sapzz)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-shared-extendable-whiteboard-plugin-in-browser/53452/3 "2006-02-07T03:57:09Z")
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, sapzz wrote: > 1. Adobe SVG pluggin is a exe. How do I render it in the browser and > syncronize the building of images on the network Firefox SVG support is slowly (almost) becoming usable. I wouldn’t call it Good yet. > 1. Are there some other applications or pluggins which I can integrate > with ruby on rails and implement this shared white board in my application Hmm. A Wiki takes you 90% of the way there, Wiki’s version and share txt, SVG is just text. Inkscape is a marvelous really Good SVG drawing app. I heartily recommend it. [http://www.inkscape.org/](http://www.inkscape.org/) Subversion is another Good way of sharing and versioning and displaying data on the web. [www.subversion.org](http://www.subversion.org) John C. Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid New Zealand Carter’s Clarification of Murphy’s Law. “Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later.” From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.