[dba-Tech] New text editor

My first thought was  why on earth would you want a web based text editor? 

But it turns out that it is just another desktop text editor.  It doesn't "run from your browser" 
and isn't written in HTML/CSS.    

The core is based on Google's Chromium  browser source - which in the Windows 
environment requires VS2013 to build so looks like it uses .Net  

It allows you to build extensions  using HTML/CSS and javascript, so in a way it uses "web 
related technologies"

But it is not web based at all.

-- 
Stuart

On 7 May 2014 at 13:25, John Bartow wrote:

> I don't understand how something can be "fully web based" and yet only
> works on one OS. I thought web based meant it runs on the world wide
> web and works with anything. Or do you mean browser based?
> 
> Please explain.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] New text editorAnd why would anyone wa
> 
> To call Atom just a text editor is a little simplistic. 
> 
> The editor is fully web based, in other ward it runs from your
> browser, it is written in HTML5 and CSS3 and supports all the the
> Node.js libraries. It is fully OSS so if there is a feature that is
> not fully supported a bold developer can add it. The editor and
> features can be reviews and even downloaded at the following site:
> 
> https://atom.io
> 
> Unfortunately, at the moment, there is only a Mac version but
> according to the release notes Windows and Linux versions are soon to
> follow.