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13 Feb 2009 08:40
Today Developer Tools Lab at Mozilla announced the tech-preview of a new, in-browser, canvas-based concept editor that tries to resemble native desktop-based editing software.
After looking at the screenshots, watching short introductory video, I dashed to http://bespin.mozilla.com to try this out. I do not say this very often, but this is quite an excellent and amazing piece of work. Although I have been following the web development and new technologies and trends quite closely for the last couple of years, this is something that really convinces me that browser-based applications can once replace the native ones. Simply great.
See for yourself:
PS. I was so impressed with this development that I had to stop my other important work and blog about it ;-)
rating: 0, tags: canvas javascript mozilla
I like this, it has a potential. But — to be honest — I don't think that I would use it. I'd rather prefer Kate or Kwrite running locally than making some important work online.
I could imagine using such editor instead of a usual textarea e.g. for wiki syntax editing.
However, only Firefox and WebKit (nightly builds) are supported by Bespin.
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
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