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by dangoor 5867 days ago
Hi Aaron,

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

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Great to hear themes are close! I know lots of people like the black-background-light-print look, but it's essentially unusable for me--serious eye strain. I'm eagerly awaiting a theme with dark print on light background so I can give Bespin another try.