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Who’s working on Gecko-based editing tools?

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It occurs to me that various people are working on editing tools or extensions to Mozilla to support editing. I know of some of them:

  • ETNA (which seems to put out news updates and releases even less frequently than I do…)
  • Code Editor from Paul Rouget
  • My own Verbosio project
  • Daniel Kirsch (kirschkern) mentioned an interest
  • As did “Emery”.
  • Mariano expressed an interest in driving the XUL IDE project.
  • Last, but certainly not least, the fantastic work from the guys over at ActiveState.

All things considered, that’s quite a list. Each individual contributing has their own itch to scratch, and the projects don’t really compete with each other. (You might argue that ETNA and Verbosio compete, but I don’t see it that way. Verbosio’s an experimental project right now.)

Three of the others I met through Mozpad. (ETNA we haven’t heard from yet, but we haven’t gone out of our way to invite them either. Oops.) This makes me think we could form a small working group over at Mozpad – not for the IDE (which is apparently going to be Eclipse), but for smaller editing applications.

What would this new group try to do? I don’t know yet

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. I suppose the starting point would be for us to share ideas and code – and avoid duplication of effort. I personally doubt we’d try to develop a common editing tool anytime soon, seeing as our efforts are going in different sub-sets of editing right now, and we’re all pretty busy. I think my initial intent is to answer questions from community members about what work is going on in the editing space, and who’s doing it, and how developers could contribute.

Then again, maybe none of us have the time for that…

UPDATE: Okay, so ETNA is alive and well. I just haven’t heard much about it lately. (It’s not my fault Laurent isn’t on planet or the moon. 🙂 )

I was just thinking Friday @ noon Pacific time that any such group as I describe above should probably start with a simple wiki page on mozpad saying “Here’s what editing tools work is going on, and who’s doing it.” Then I don’t have to guess about who’s doing what. 🙂

4 thoughts on “Who’s working on Gecko-based editing tools?”

  3. Yes Laurent Jouanneau works for DI and ETNA is anything but a dead project. Laurent’s working on a new rng validator for it.
    I’m also working on fullerscreen pro, a slideshow editor, and Composer is not dead.

  4. Just curious, I didn’t see any mention on mozpad that eclipse had been selected as the base for an IDE. I would think that using the same technologies for the IDE that are used for the apps/extensions would be highly beneficial, and not require those interested in pursuing an IDE to learn java and a whole new platform (eclipse).
    (From Alex: It’s been the subject of discussion on mozpad for a while. FWIW, Shane, I agree with you. However, plasticmillion and Mukunda will be speaking on this in more detail, since they’re closer to that effort.)

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