Online Code Editors

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The other day I was looking at Bespin, a new online code editor from Mozilla, all told it’s a pretty slick responsive code editor with classification (syntax coloring) for HTML, JavaScript and CSS. It really seems like the online code editor space is going to heat up a bit as people integrate which is great. Indeed Popfly has had one from the get go (~2 years ago). At first the editor was built with textboxes and JavaScript which was all too messy and now a much improved version built on Silverlight (screenshot) thanks to work done by Chuck Jazdzewski. You’ll find it in places such as the game creator custom editor and on the mashup editor for when in a blocks “advanced view”.

Of course there are plenty of other online editors out there, now to just find a compelling business model for them…

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