Announcing the Bespin Plugin Gallery
The past couple months at Mozilla I’ve been plugging away (sorry for the pun) at the Bespin Plugin Gallery, and we’ve announced today that it’s officially live. Yay!
But wait, let’s back up a sec. First we need to talk about Bespin, because most of the people I talk to don’t know about this Mozilla-sponsored project.
Bespin is a code editor that you can embed in any web page. It’s lightweight, easy to use code editor that’s also easy on the eyes. It’s named Bespin after the planet in Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, where Cloud City can be found. After all, the idea for the project is to provide developers with the ability to write, save and publish code in the proverbial web-based cloud.
The plugin gallery is a repository of plug-ins that are developed for Bespin. As a user of Bespin, you may download a Python Syntax Highlighter or a Vim Command Mapping Tool, and install these plug-ins into your Bespin editor to easily customize your coding environment. To get started building plugins for Bespin, check out the Bespin Plugin Guide.
I had a lot of fun working with Kevin Dangoor on the project, and am grateful for the design work of Sean Martell and Craig Cook, as well as the help from Stephen Donner and the rest of the QA team.
