mozilla/skywriter

Mozilla Skywriter

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Implementing good text controls in Canvas is a fool's errand. The spec itself warns against it: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... They wanted to be ambitious and to their credit they got very far. They gave a few talks on the hurdles they had to overcome. Measuring the…

on Edit like an Ace

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Aug 15, 2011

You could also use the Cloud9IDE at http://cloud9ide.org . (It's based on the Ace editor, which Bespin/SkyWriter merged with. [1]) Log in with your Github user/pass, see your repos, and commit. It's not as seamless as if it was on Github, but impressively powerful. [1]…

on Forking with the Edit Button

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Apr 27, 2011

Mozilla Skywriter has been merged into Ace

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Jan 19, 2011

(clickable) https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

on Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

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Dec 10, 2010

In no way am I suggesting that it's an equivalent editor, but you may want to take a look at Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin). https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ If I get the chance to be a Chrome OS tester, I'll be giving this a thorough try.

on Apply for a Google Cr-48

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Dec 7, 2010

The editor is skywriter which is based on canvas, so it doesn't work on IE<9 https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

on Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Nov 18, 2010

Most of it is Apple: Mobile Me is all based on Sproutcore. Otherwise, Mozilla Skywriter (http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ , previously Bespin) is also sproutcore based.

on Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche leave Engine Yard to work on SproutCore

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Sep 14, 2010

Bespin is now Mozilla Skywriter, moves to GitHub

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Sep 2, 2010

README

Welcome to Mozilla Skywriter!
-----------------------------

Mozilla Skywriter is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code 
editor using HTML 5 technology.

Project home page: http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

Thanks for downloading the code to the Skywriter project.

You can find more documentation in the docs/ directory.

The source repository is at:
  http://github.com/mozilla/skywriter.git

Not written in Markdown, so it's shown here as plain text — view it formatted on GitHub.

mozilla/skywriter

Mozilla Skywriter

JavaScript

481

1,465 commits

updated May 18, 2015

See the code

See what people are saying

SourceMessageScoreDate

Implementing good text controls in Canvas is a fool's errand. The spec itself warns against it: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... They wanted to be ambitious and to their credit they got very far. They gave a few talks on the hurdles they had to overcome. Measuring the…

on Edit like an Ace

0

Aug 15, 2011

You could also use the Cloud9IDE at http://cloud9ide.org . (It's based on the Ace editor, which Bespin/SkyWriter merged with. [1]) Log in with your Github user/pass, see your repos, and commit. It's not as seamless as if it was on Github, but impressively powerful. [1]…

on Forking with the Edit Button

0

Apr 27, 2011

Mozilla Skywriter has been merged into Ace

41

Jan 19, 2011

(clickable) https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

on Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

0

Dec 10, 2010

In no way am I suggesting that it's an equivalent editor, but you may want to take a look at Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin). https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ If I get the chance to be a Chrome OS tester, I'll be giving this a thorough try.

on Apply for a Google Cr-48

0

Dec 7, 2010

The editor is skywriter which is based on canvas, so it doesn't work on IE<9 https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

on Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

0

Nov 18, 2010

Most of it is Apple: Mobile Me is all based on Sproutcore. Otherwise, Mozilla Skywriter (http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ , previously Bespin) is also sproutcore based.

on Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche leave Engine Yard to work on SproutCore

0

Sep 14, 2010

Bespin is now Mozilla Skywriter, moves to GitHub

75

Sep 2, 2010

README

Welcome to Mozilla Skywriter!
-----------------------------

Mozilla Skywriter is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code 
editor using HTML 5 technology.

Project home page: http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

Thanks for downloading the code to the Skywriter project.

You can find more documentation in the docs/ directory.

The source repository is at:
  http://github.com/mozilla/skywriter.git

Not written in Markdown, so it's shown here as plain text — view it formatted on GitHub.

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