Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin
) was a
Mozilla Labs project aiming to create an open, extensible, and interoperable
web-based framework for
code editing.
As of January 2011, it has been merged into Ajax.org's
Ace and
Cloud9 IDE projects.
Name
The original name was a reference to
Bespin
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, the fictional
gas giant from
Star Wars
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where "Cloud City" is located,
which relates to the
cloud computing nature of the project.
In a time preceding the 1.0 release the name of the project was changed to Skywriter due to "many compliments and complaints" over the previous one. This new name also holds a reference to coding in a cloud environment.
Features
Skywriter encourages a more
shared environment where data can be accessed from any machine.
This allows developers to collaborate on projects through a unified
interface accessed through a
web browser, no matter where they are physically located.
The application is available to anyone after free registration on the website.
Skywriter currently supports
syntax highlighting for
HTML,
CSS
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,
PHP,
Python,
C#,
C,
Ruby,
JavaScript and Wiring (used by the
Arduino platform).
References
External links
*
Skywriter source-code repository (official)* by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith at Google I/O 2009
Bespin source-code repository (old)Change logCloud9
Web frameworks
Cloud applications
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