CoBrowser: Surfing the Web Using A Standard Browser
Karel Malý, Mohammad Zubair, Ling Li · EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology · 2000
Co-browsing is a synchronous class of collaborative application, which allows a group of users to surf the web together. Such an application can be deployed in an education environment in several ways. For example, courses that are project oriented might require students to collectively research or explore information on the Web. In this paper, we describe CoBrowser, a prototype co-browsing system that supports multiple groups, CoPointer, and Chat sessions. In past, co-browsing architecture have been based on either a proxy server or required a specialized plug-in for the web browser. The proxy server based approach is complex and is not scalable. The proposed CoBrowser addresses both these limitations and works on any platform that supports a graphical Web browser with Java capability.