Joonas Govenius wrote: > Boyd Fletcher wrote: >> we still do not believe that SXE is appropriate for whiteboarding >> especially >> when scaled to hundreds of concurrent users in a single session. >> > I actually think SXE would scale to many users very well because: > > a) it makes no difference for an individual client who the edits come > from or how many users there are in the session > > b) the server (if one is used) doesn't do any processing of the edits; > it merely forwards them to the participants. > > c) SXE causes minimal "locking" of the document; only simultaneous edits > to the same DOM node conflict.
That seems reasonable to me. > On the other hand, SXE doesn't currently specify any access control to > limit who can edit the document. That may be a problem for the kind of > large sessions that you're thinking of. IMHO a large session would be done in a MUC room or via a specialized component, and that's the level at which floor control would happen. > Also, as Fabio Forno pointed out, SXE may be problematic with a high > volume of edits but, in the case of whiteboarding at least, the volume > would probably not increase very much with the number of participants > because most participant would merely "watch". I think that would be the case for the vast majority of large editing sessions. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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