We’ve had a a client add a new “requirement” to a project we’re about to start and it’s thrown us a little bit. From the end users perspective it’s simple, but as a developer I have no idea how to implement it!
What our user would like is for a web form text box (ideally a rich text editor, such as CKEditor) to track the changes a user makes to the content. Note this is not to track if a change has been made but to actually highlight those changes. Basically they’re after Microsoft Word’s “Track Changes” feature!
The idea is as a request goes between users if one users alters a text box containing a large amount of text the next user will be easily able to identify what’s changed.
I’d love to hear if anybody has ever done something similar or anybody’s thoughts on if or how it may be possible?
Some one already posted an excellent answer here:
How to highlight changes/difference in one text paragraph from the other?