[Icybee]

http://www.yourworldoftext.com/ has been doing something similar for about the last five years.

[louisstow]

Yeah definitely the inspiration. Some of the things I didn't like was the editing ability of text. If I made a typo I would have to rewrite it. Also colours!

[bdr]

The more the merrier! See also http://www.jotleaf.com/, a multimedia take on the same concept.

Your World of Text, for what it's worth, is still going strong. It gets a lot of traffic for an art project.

[weedow]

This is amazing. Just thought about this idea a few days ago and boom! It exists! Would love to see support to embed any html (think youtube videos) every text area stored as a file on dropbox, support for right to left...

[bdr]

YouTube embeds are supported

[dirkk0]

How do I do that?

[bdr]

Just paste a YouTube URL.

[dirkk0]

This pastes the link there, but doesn't embed it (i.e. no preview pic, etc).

[bollix]

hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.

[laumars]

s/better/differently/

I wouldn't say all of the re-invention has been for the better.

[bollix]

Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes around...

[keane]

Also thefacebook.com circa 2005/2006