Labs/Bespin

Bespin is a Web-based editor.

The page discusses the set of features we want to implement and presents a timeline for their implementation.

Features (by category)

Documentation

• Documentation API
• Quirksmode API integration

Version Control

• Subversion
• Git
• Google Code specific lookup
• Sourceforge specific lookup
• Mozilla Repo specific lookup
• Github specific lookup

Collaboration

• Server side undo/redo
• View a user working
• Collaborate on a file (read/write)
• Good workflow for sharing and inviting
• Record a session and allow replay

Editor

• Syntax highlighting
• Integrate command line?
• Clean Editor API for integration elsewhere
• Separate into project and allow non-code editor use cases

Commands

• Command line cleanup: second level completion, make sure default commands work
• Ubiquity integration

User Accounts

• OpenID to login
• Setup teams
• Tie projects to teams
• Allow virtual teams (not tied to companies)
• Project page view

Roadmap

0.1 (Jan. 9)

Must Have

• Open ID
• Simple Project page
• Simple file sharing
• Simple syntax highlighting
• Command-line

Stretch Goals

• Share session (read only)
• Server side undo/redo
• Intelligent syntax highlighting
  • Multiple languages in a single file
  • Parse across lines
• Canvas-based command line
  • Great auto-complete experience
  • Safari/opera/iphone support