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by brownBananas 4648 days ago
Nice logo animation, the site looks great, but I have trouble figuring out why I would want to edit just a few files via a web browser.

Read-ony makes sense, and something like Cloud9 makes sense. But just editing a few files? You might have to help me out here. Genuinely requesting.
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michaelbuckbee 4648 days ago
There are tons of different open source and pay javascript/html/css addons that exist out there that to evaluate you need to download, edit and play around with.

This is a much easier way to let developers evaluate a project without having to go through that hassle.

This is an area where right now most projects seem to rely on (the awesome) jsFiddle - but having things on your own server makes sense in many cases.

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bmelton 4648 days ago
> I have trouble figuring out why I would want to edit just a few files via a web browser

Because it's REALLY awesome, if you're having problem making something work in a browser, to be able to copy just the relevant conditions that break into an editor like this that you can share with the world. I wondered for a long time why people used gists, or sites like jsfiddle, but the first time I saw somebody post broken code to a fiddle (via StackOverflow), then saw somebody else fork it, make corrections, and post the corrected fiddle back, I immediately realized that whomever had thought of it first was a much wiser man than myself.

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