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by aaronblohowiak
5866 days ago
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I have spent ~8 hours with embedding and customizing bespin. A lot of that time has been reading code, and a lot of that code is comments that say TODO. If you are thinking about using its editor as a drop-in to your project, think twice! Its code highlighting is not template-driven and has hard-coded values in several different files. None of this is documented, at least not in any place that i found. There are theme files, but changing them does not change the actual presentation =(. Further, there are no plans or aspirations to support IE. Further still, it does not support multiple editors per-page, so you have to manually manage the buildup and teardown -- this may not be an issue depending on your use-case. Note: this was done with version 0.7.3, the current shipping one. |
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Sorry to hear about the trouble. We do try to be helpful on the mailing list, and I will certainly agree that Bespin is alpha software at this point.
Docs are located here:
https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/docs/
Themes are coming in Bespin 0.8, which is probably about a week away. 0.8 is still alpha, but it's moving closer.
Multiple editors on a page will likely be supported soon. I did a promising experiment last week and we need to work through some of the details.
It could be said that IE aspires to support Bespin ;) IE9 is going to have considerably improved support for the latest standards, and there are rumors that it will support Canvas, which is how Bespin draws its text. We also use CSS3 flexible boxes to lay out the interface. Using those advanced features, Bespin supports Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Granted our "modern browsers only" policy means that Bespin isn't right for some applications. That's okay with us. The users who we think will ultimately come to love Bespin are in the 40% of web browsers that are using a modern browser.
Kevin Bespin PM