Interview: Mozilla Bespin's Joe Walker
Bespin is a new project from Mozilla Labs attempting to bring a full-featured, collaborative editor to the web. At the recent Yahoo Hack Day event we had a quick chat with Joe Walker, one of the four developers.
TuxRadar: So, another code editor - what's special about this one?
Joe Walker: There've been plenty of attempts to write code editors on the web, and they're generally very slow. They're slow because they're using the DOM to handle potentially big files, and as soon as you get towards a thousand lines, it becomes quite unmanageable.
So our approach was... What can we do with the web to make this work? And the other thing is that you can do collaboration on the web.
TR: Collaboration would be the biggest deal on the web...
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