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I'm the developer behind Jooplicate. If you have any questions please let me know. Thanks!

Is there a future plan to maybe provide an option to pay for the ability to host the jooplicate service on our own machines?

I work for a university that still is very hesitant on using cloud services, because they don't want student data going outside our machines.

I can certainly look at offering a privately-hostable version eventually. It's running on a typical asp.net stack, so shouldn't be too hard to install elsewhere.

I'm currently focused on getting the public service out there, but if you're keen to get Jooplicate running locally please drop me an email andrew@equin.co.uk . It would be useful to know what kind of requirements you have.

Thanks.

That's great--how do you do the snapshotting in pure Javascript? (If that's your secret sauce, fair 'nuff, but any hints would be appreciated.)

Edit: Oh, wait, it's just HTML you're sending--I see. You're not capturing a screenshot.

Yes, for now it's HTML, which is better than nothing. My plan for the future is to pass the HTML to a server-side browser renderer (using the user agent captured in the snapshot). So then you'll get a JPEG as well.

Do you know how http://www.snapengage.com/ takes screenshots? I'm not sure if it's HTML or an actual image, but it might be work looking into.

I hadn't see that site before - I'll have a look into it. Thanks!

Interesting. It looks like it depends on Flash to take that screenshot.

Great idea and nicely presented... but can't help but think that I could whip this up with jquery in under an hour?

I'm trying to keep things simple for this initial version and iterate based on feedback. Jooplicate is doing some tricky stuff in the background. For example, it's working cross-domain and sanitizing the HTML.

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