Mozilla Skywriter

Mozilla Skywriter
Developer(s)	Mozilla Labs
Preview release	0.9a1
Repository	github.com/mozilla/skywriter ;
Operating system	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Type	Code editor
License	MPL
Website	mozillalabs.com/skywriter

Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin^[2]) was a Mozilla Labs project aiming to create an open, extensible, and interoperable web-based framework for code editing.

As of January 2011, it has been merged into Ajax.org's Ace and Cloud9 IDE projects.^[3]

Name

The original name was a reference to Bespin, the fictional gas giant from Star Wars where "Cloud City" is located,^[4] which relates to the cloud computing nature of the project.

In a time preceding the 1.0 release the name of the project was changed to Skywriter due to "many compliments and complaints" over the previous one. This new name also holds a reference to coding in a cloud environment.^[2]

Features

Skywriter encourages a more shared environment where data can be accessed from any machine.^[5] This allows developers to collaborate on projects through a unified interface accessed through a web browser, no matter where they are physically located.^[6] The application is available to anyone after free registration on the website.^[7]

Skywriter currently supports syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, C#, C, Ruby, JavaScript and Wiring (used by the Arduino platform).^[8]