Cursors Everywhere: An experiment on shared cursors for every website
Learn about Ably DevRel Engineer Tom Camp's experience with creating a Chrome Plugin to allow anyone to see one another’s cursors on any web page, and the technical considerations required.
This video has also been written as a blog post which you can find here: https://dev.to/ably/cursor-everywhere-an-experiment-on-shared-cursors-for-every-website-4o7l.
If you're interested in the code for the project as it stands, you can find it on GitHub: https://github.com/ably-labs/cursors-everywhere.
About Ably
Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.