Mozilla Cloud computing HTML5 text editor coming soon

As early as 2009, Mozilla announced that it wanted to develop a cloud code editor, completely web-based, without the need to install Firefox extensions, a Firefox-only online editor that supports online editing and collaboration, support for multi-user collaboration, And can be used for both code and text processing, and named "Bespin", from "Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back" in the Yuncheng Bespin.

Over the past year, the Bespin project has been slow but steady, and Mozilla says it's not far from its 1.0 official version, and renamed it "Skywriter", more in line with the purpose of cloud coding. In the near future, Mozilla will also submit skywriter to the GitHub, which is easy for developers to get and help the project progress.

The Mozilla description says that Skywriter is a powerful, customizable HTML5 text editor, "Skywriter will be an end-to-end JavaScript based system, in fact, the core of the initial service is based on Python, JavaScript is just beginning to use. ...... We will create a desktop version based on XULRunner Skywriter, and a customized server version based on Node.js. ”

However, Mozilla has moved the code base of the project to GitHub at the user's request. At first, in the project, mercurial, wrote in a Mozilla blog, that people who had been used for Skywriter wanted to be able to use it on GitHub, GitHub's library was a new Skywriter version of Jacasript, The old mercurial library will remain, Post said, and we just changed the tool for JavaScript, not the Bespin core plugin.

Original link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/mozilla_bespin_becomes_mozilla_skywriter/