For those following Canvas projects it is worth noting the history here, that Mozilla Bespin became Mozilla Skywriter and then ditched HTML5 Canvas altogether for divs only, finally merging with Ace.
By having this tied into github I'm beginning to see how use Ace (or similar) instead of vim/emacs as a day-to-day code edit workflow...<p>Just fork a project to your account on github, edit in Ace, and then make a pull request when you are done.<p>Would people do this? If not, is Ace just going to be for minor edits, etc?<p>I'm curious how other people will use this.<p>EDIT: people the child comments are telling me the fork is done automatically for you - cool. I need to play around with this on other projects!
I'm really happy to see this feature. Sometimes I see a small problem in somebody else's code or documentation and out of sheer laziness I don't go though the trouble of forking, cloning, editing, pushing and sending a pull request. I think this will be wonderful for exactly those situations and should help encourage more people to participate in open source.
I can see how this might silently make Github into one of the best blogging platform on the planet.<p>I run my blog (pepijndevos.nl) on Github, using its Jekyll feature, so my blog just got a much better online editor with preview functionality.
I've checked Ace live demo[1], turned on "Emacs" keybindings and failed to see what do they have in common with Emacs, apart from the old, carpal-tunnel-syndrome-powered C-p/n/b/f movement keys.<p>They could use an Emacs hacker to fix it up, but Emacs hackers already have perfectly fine editor, so I do not predict any great success in this field.<p>[1] - <a href="http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/build/kitchen-sink.html" rel="nofollow">http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/build/kitchen-sink.html</a>
This is neat editor and it's cool to see how Github could eventually bill itself as your one stop shop for code editing and collaboration. My only concern is that of feature creep hurting the user experience by creating a cluttered and confusing UI. I personally feel that Github's web UI is very cluttered as it is. They possibly have one of the best user experiences that I have seen, given the large amount of data and information that they have to present and I do not think that this feature necessarily hurts it at all, but it's getting close, in my opinion.<p>Just my two cents.
I've contributed some changes and documentation to Ace, really awesome project, great to see it hitting Github!<p>Support for IE<9 older browsers is a little sketchy at the moment, but hopefully greater exposure through github will see more fixes and features contributed. (Fabian Jakobs seems quite open to new features as long as they fit in with the projects goals)
This is great! I'm currently working on a small web editor called anyfnwhere. In development at the moment.<p>check <a href="https://github.com/keyle/anyfnwhere" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/keyle/anyfnwhere</a>
From TFA: "If you're using a recent version of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox here's how it works.."<p>Is there a reason they miss out Internet Explorer? Makes it sound like it's not supported or something. Is it?
This is a brilliant feature, and as close an example of cloud editing that I would consider using as any on the internet.<p>Does anyone know is there anything to give this a modular editor feel like vim?<p>If someone can deliver me an online experience with a fully functioning vim, I would be browser bound almost exclusively.