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Comment on Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Great work. Bookmarked it.

2 questions:

1) Is there a way to erase or reset the drawing in case i bungle it up?

2) It'd be brilliant if you could collaborate using the same URL. I sent a markup URL to someone who wanted to share his notes on my annotations and he hit respond, drew the appropriate stuff and hit publish only to find that there was a new link that had to be pushed to me for it to be seen. Again, I understand the concern of too many cooks spoil the broth but it's a usecase for a small team to collaborate on a page's UI without having to send a new link each time.

Great piece of work.

What about using socket.io to provide a real-time collaborative environment?

Here is the typical use case: my business partner is in Australia and I'm in China. We often browse the internet "together" to share some design inspirations. For now, we have to include position info in the skype call to say "if you look at the trending keywords on the right hand side, blah, blah". It'll be super nice for us to look at the same page and I can see his mouse movement.

1) Yep. Keyboard only for now (though we're looking into adding UI controls): You can select any shape, then hit backspace/delete. You can also select every shape with ctrl+a/cmd+a. Also ctrl+z/cmd+z and ctrl+shift+z/cmd+shift+z to go back and forth in the history.

2) We've got some ideas about making collaborating easier (revision history, realtime multi-user drawing, wave-style replaying, &c.) What would work well for you?

Thanks for the followup.

re. #2, i think even a revision history, keeping the same URL or a list of revisions on the dropdown should be very useful while you develop the entire product.

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