Webstrates A research prototype enabling collaborative editing of websites through DOM manipulations.

For easier navigation through document revisions, Webstrate includes tagging. A tag is a label applied to a specific version of the document.

All tags for a document can be seen by either accessing http://<hostname>/<webstrateId>?tags or calling webstrate.tags() in the Webstrate. The current tag can also be seen by calling webstrate.tag().

Listening for tagging and untagging can be done using the two events tag and untag:

webstrate.on("tag", function(version, label) {
  // A version has been tagged with a label.
});

Subscribing to the untag event is done in a similar fashion, except only a version parameter will be given.

Manual tagging

Tagging can be done by calling webstrate.tag(label, [version]). If no version is supplied, the current version will be used. A label can be any text string that does not begin with a number.

Restoring a document from a tag can be achieved by calling webstrate.restore(label).

A tag can be removed by calling webstrate.untag(label) or webstrate.untag(version).

All labels are unique for each Webstrate (i.e. no two versions of the same document can carry the same label), and likewise each version can only have one label. Adding a label to a version that is already tagged will overwrite the existing tag. Adding a label that already exists on another version will move the tag to the new version.

Auto-tagging

In addition to manual tagging, Webstrates also automatically creates tags when a user starts modifying a document after a set period of inactivity. See tagging in the configuration section.