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At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favor

by ebbv 14y ago

At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is. But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run? If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it was my idea.

bmuon 14y ago
Here's another idea. JSBin is doing something pretty awesome: it uses the HTML5 File API so that you can select a file from your computer and it syncs to different instances of the same bin while you edit it in your favorite editor. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE (keep in mind the video was taken during development, now it's pretty stable). BTW some people like editing in the browser and that's why Cloud9IDE is alive.
- tjmehta 14y ago
  Drag-and-drop support for files is coming really soon :)
ykumar6 14y ago
Stay tuned :) We already offer this in our private beta.
- oinksoft 14y ago
  I have to remember that line ;^)
creativename 14y ago
Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (https://c9.io/ https://c9.io/) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment. Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9
joshuamerrill 14y ago
Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.
- ykumar6 14y ago
  Git support is available in private beta.
judofyr 14y ago
Was this an intended joke on Heroku? Heroku started out as "develop Rails in your browser", but quickly pivoted into "host Rails in the cloud".
- ykumar6 14y ago
  We're not trying to be a cloud ide :) Think content, and lots of it..
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ykumar6 14y ago
Git is going to be coming, very very soon ...

by ebbv 14y ago

bmuon 14y ago

Here's another idea. JSBin is doing something pretty awesome: it uses the HTML5 File API so that you can select a file from your computer and it syncs to different instances of the same bin while you edit it in your favorite editor. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE (keep in mind the video was taken during development, now it's pretty stable). BTW some people like editing in the browser and that's why Cloud9IDE is alive.

tjmehta 14y ago
Drag-and-drop support for files is coming really soon :)

ykumar6 14y ago

Stay tuned :) We already offer this in our private beta.

oinksoft 14y ago
I have to remember that line ;^)

creativename 14y ago

Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (https://c9.io/ https://c9.io/) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment. Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9

joshuamerrill 14y ago

Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.

ykumar6 14y ago
Git support is available in private beta.

judofyr 14y ago

Was this an intended joke on Heroku? Heroku started out as "develop Rails in your browser", but quickly pivoted into "host Rails in the cloud".

ykumar6 14y ago
We're not trying to be a cloud ide :) Think content, and lots of it..
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ykumar6 14y ago

Git is going to be coming, very very soon ...