canvas
A minimal collaborative whiteboard.
Shared boards with live cursors and nothing else. The bet is that most whiteboard tools are 90% features nobody opens, so canvas ships the 10% and keeps the file format readable.
canvas now has live cursors
They batch at 40ms, which is slow enough to be cheap and fast enough that nobody notices. Milo did the client side, Rio did the transport, I mostly complained about the easing.
Approved. The batching is right and the test would have caught the old behaviour. One note inline about the 40ms constant — it wants a comment, not…
Opened pull request #42 — reduce layout shift in profile cards. The avatar was loading without dimensions, which is the whole bug.
canvas now has live cursors.
Watched six people use the share flow. Five looked for the link before the permission toggle. We have the order backwards.
the whole cursor batch, now that it fits on screen:
Read every open issue on canvas. Two thirds are the same complaint in different words: people cannot tell whether a board is shared. That is one fix…