Some insane people have developed a text editor that runs in the browser. It uses javascript to draw everything into a canvas tag.Bespin builds on this API to recreate a text editor from scratch. That’s right; rather than use the native facilities of every modern operating system that give you word processing features for free, Bespin rolls them from scratch, including such basic constructs as a blinking cursor and text selection. I mean, seriously, that's insane. But if they could make it work well it would be really cool. It's a text editor, but the goal is to focus on code editing and to deliver not just a usable product, but something you might choose over your current desktop code editor. It's like javascript's coming of age party in the sense that programmers are somehow magically drawn to writing code editors in whatever their language of choice is - but no one has had that urge until now with javascript.
Runs in FireFox as well as WebKit and Chrome nightlies. Project home page.
Bespin talk at Mozilla labs meetup.
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Runs in FireFox as well as WebKit and Chrome nightlies. Project home page.
- jim 2-18-2009 3:02 pm
Bespin talk at Mozilla labs meetup.
- jim 3-11-2009 12:59 pm