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Mozilla Skywriter has been merged into Ace

41 points by abraham 16y ago

bobfunk 16y ago
Most important change seems to be the switch from a canvas based renderer to a DOM based renderer. From what I've seen ACE feels a lot faster than Bespin did. I've been wondering if it would be possible to build a WYSIWYG HTML editor on top of their DOM based renderer ala Google Doc's editor. ContentEditable based editors are a real pain to work with due to all the quirky browser behavior that comes with contenteditable. Would be great to have an alternative...
chime 16y ago
Can this do code-collapse? I'd love to plugin the Ace editor like a textarea and replace almost all of the JS at https://zetabee.com/text https://zetabee.com/text - I see that it supports hidden characters so maybe there is a way to hide entire chunks of text (while preserving them during cut-copy-paste). Has anyone worked with Ace? I tried customizing SkyWriter but it was more work than just rolling my own JS. The demo source https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/demo/startup.js https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/demo/startup.js is pretty clean but it doesn't appear if there is a way to extend the editor's features via plugins.
- sharms 16y ago
  From the article, wrt extending: "Along the way, we repackaged the plugin system as “pilot” and the command line, which has become even smoother to use, is in its own package called “cockpit“. You can use just these components in your own projects if you want to make them extensible or keyboard-friendly."
  - chime 16y ago
    Thanks. I dug in and looks like it's still a non-JS system: https://github.com/mozilla/cockpit https://github.com/mozilla/cockpit - I was hoping there'd be something like a jQuery.fn.plugin system to hook on to the Ace editor and override specific things.
    - dangoor 16y ago
      It's definitely all JS. There are hooks to plug in specific things, but not any arbitrary behavior. code folding is a nice feature though, and one I'd expect we'll see along the way. code folding requires some work though, because it changes how line positions are computed.
bokchoi 16y ago
I wonder how this affects HP/Palm's Ares online editor for WebOS.
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olalonde 16y ago
Ace demo: http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/editor-build.html http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/editor-build.html
jamesgeck0 16y ago
I wonder how many people will realize that Ace is the new Skywriter. The last name change was only in September.

41 points by abraham 16y ago

Most important change seems to be the switch from a canvas based renderer to a DOM based renderer. From what I've seen ACE feels a lot faster than Bespin did. I've been wondering if it would be possible to build a WYSIWYG HTML editor on top of their DOM based renderer ala Google Doc's editor. ContentEditable based editors are a real pain to work with due to all the quirky browser behavior that comes with contenteditable. Would be great to have an alternative...

chime 16y ago

Can this do code-collapse? I'd love to plugin the Ace editor like a textarea and replace almost all of the JS at https://zetabee.com/text https://zetabee.com/text - I see that it supports hidden characters so maybe there is a way to hide entire chunks of text (while preserving them during cut-copy-paste). Has anyone worked with Ace? I tried customizing SkyWriter but it was more work than just rolling my own JS. The demo source https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/demo/startup.js https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/demo/startup.js is pretty clean but it doesn't appear if there is a way to extend the editor's features via plugins.

sharms 16y ago
From the article, wrt extending: "Along the way, we repackaged the plugin system as “pilot” and the command line, which has become even smoother to use, is in its own package called “cockpit“. You can use just these components in your own projects if you want to make them extensible or keyboard-friendly."
- chime 16y ago
  Thanks. I dug in and looks like it's still a non-JS system: https://github.com/mozilla/cockpit https://github.com/mozilla/cockpit - I was hoping there'd be something like a jQuery.fn.plugin system to hook on to the Ace editor and override specific things.
  - dangoor 16y ago
    It's definitely all JS. There are hooks to plug in specific things, but not any arbitrary behavior. code folding is a nice feature though, and one I'd expect we'll see along the way. code folding requires some work though, because it changes how line positions are computed.

bokchoi 16y ago

I wonder how this affects HP/Palm's Ares online editor for WebOS.

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olalonde 16y ago

Ace demo: http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/editor-build.html http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/editor-build.html

jamesgeck0 16y ago

I wonder how many people will realize that Ace is the new Skywriter. The last name change was only in September.