Real-time collaboration is a crucial a part of the trendy Web. Actually, you’re able to argue that it’s the major aspect of any modern Web app – just take a look at how much emphasis Google Docs puts on working together. Unfortunately, such collaboration is just currently possible in Web apps built specifically with that during mind, but Mozilla desires to change all that.

Mozilla Labs announced today that it’s releasing TogetherJS to the sector. It’s an HTML5-based collaboration tool that adds an identical type of tools which you see in Google Drive to any Web app or site. While it is usually excited about collaboration, TogetherJS is usually a communications tool that allows text and audio chat between two or more people via WebRTC.

Here’s an entire list of the features currently enabled by TogetherJS:

See the opposite person’s cursor and clicks

See scroll position

Watch the pages somebody visits on a page

Text chat

Audio chat using WebRTC

Form field synchronization (text fields, checkboxes, etc)

Play/pause/track videos in sync

Continue sessions across multiple pages on a site

And here’s a video of it in action:

You might have noticed by now that TogetherJS is a carbon copy of TowTruck – a true-time collaboration tool that was released by Mozilla Labs in alpha back in April. Because it seems, Mozilla changed the name to TogetherJS last month, but said that the underlying technology remained the similar. The cause of the name change was solely because of Mozilla realizing that TowTruck quickly outgrew its original ambition and it needed a brand new name to mirror this reality.

If it’s worthwhile to know more about TogetherJS, inspect Mozilla’s excellent technology overview. With a purpose to contribute, you can see its GitHub page here.

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