The developer, who previously brought us Facebook friend exporter, Mohammed Mansour, created a new, experimental Google chrome extension that adds the ability to work together on the basis of the text of the document Google + hangouts. For those of you not yet versed in all G + terminology hangouts are alternating video chat in social networking apps, supporting up to 10 people simultaneously.
With this new extension Hangout now you can do more than just chat – you can collaborate on files, text-based, too. Mansour suggests that this is a great extension for developers to use code to work, for example.
Buggy, but it works
A few caveats before we continue: this extension is "horribly bad" (Mansour in words, not mine). This is an Alpha product must be technology preview, not what you should expect to use in the real world, or mission-critical in any way. It doesn't seem to work on Mac computers, either. Attempt to load the extension on my MacBook Pro gave me an error message. Windows 7 on my computer But it worked.
The expansion was developed without access to the official Google + API (application programming interface), since such a thing does not exist yet. In other words all Google + Chrome extension so far, this unauthorized hack.
It's also pretty awesome.
Technical details
Mansour, said that the crew are now managed using outdated technology Google wave and Google using jQuery, the common spaces. To build the extension, he imitated the gadget Hangout YouTube and capturing all of the messages coming from Google wave extensions. Expanding broadcasts a unique identifier that is stored in waves, each participant can read when they join this identifier is strong for this session only Hangout.
This is quite a complex hack allows Mansour. Fortunately for us, he put the code on GitHub so others can contribute.
How to use
Use the extension, you first install the add-in from the Chrome Web store, and then head over to Google + and start Hangout. There's nothing more you have to do text editing interface appears directly above the video window Hangout screens.
But in order for other Hangout for code sharing with you, they also will need to install the extension.
The expansion was made possible with support from CRAGGS Barrington John and Jake McCuistion, said Mansour. If you give it a shot, let us know how well it fared for you.
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