Bespin Cloud Editor Gains Collaborative Editing Feature

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Article Source Ars Technica
August 20, 2009, 8:05 am

Mozilla Labs has released a new version of Bespin, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that is designed to run entirely within a Web browser. Version 0.4 introduces support for document sharing and real-time collaborative editing.

The Bespin project was first launched in February with the goal of producing a next-generation software development tool in the cloud. It has a highly extensible command system and a heavily keyboard-oriented user interface that is richly powerful and still relatively easy to use. The project has attracted a lot of interest from third-party developers and has become a nexus for innovation…