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Bespin is now Mozilla Skywriter, moves to GitHub

Today, we’re announcing that the Mozilla Labs project codenamed “Bespin” is now called Mozilla Skywriter. It remains a Labs experiment to see how great coding in the browser can be by making a powerful, customizable HTML5 text editor. We’re also announcing a move to GitHub.

Bespin Plugin Gallery is now live!

Head over to the new Bespin Plugin Gallery to find plugins for Bespin and share the ones you’ve created.

Tutorial: Adding to Bespin’s GUI

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add on to Bespin’s graphical user interface with a new, custom component.

Introducing the Bespin Bookmarklet

The new Bespin Bookmarklet lets you use the Bespin editor to edit code or other text on any page with a textarea.

Tutorial: Manipulating Text Through Commands

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating new commands that allow Bespin to work with Markdown formatted text.

Bespin 0.9a1 released: multiple Bespins, code completion

Bespin 0.9a1 features multiple Bespin instances, the start of code completion, simpler packaging and a curious new version number.

Bespin 0.8: Less and More

Bespin 0.8, codenamed “Cheviot”, is the biggest (and smallest!) Bespin release since Bespin 0.5. Released on June 21st, 2010, Bespin 0.8 is the most important release since Bespin 0.5 introduced the “Embedded” packaging last November. We’ve got a bunch of new features and infrastructure, and new plans for the Bespin server. Read on to find [...]

Bespin 0.7.3 released: usability improvements, docs and fixes

The Bespin team has just released Bespin 0.7.3, a minor update to the Bespin server and Bespin Embedded packages. We’ve made a whole bunch of improvements since the release of 0.7.2.

Bespin 0.7.2 bugfix release

Wednesday’s release of Bespin 0.7.1 was a milestone release for the project. Now that we’re back to updating the main Bespin server, you can expect to see frequent updates… such as today’s 0.7.2 release. Most notably, this release fixes a login problem for users with & in their passwords. We got in a couple of [...]

Bespin 0.7.1 (“Bryce”) released: Bespin Rebooted

On April 7th, we released Bespin 0.7.1 (codenamed “Bryce”). This is the first update to the Bespin server and full package since we “rebooted” the client side of the project. Read on for a few of the details of the release.