Play really is the most developer friendly web framework for Java
— Stefan Schmidt @ Twitter
Play really is the most developer friendly web framework for Java
— Stefan Schmidt @ Twitter
Talk with Emmanuel Bernard from JBoss (in french)
Play framework - the first reasonable Java web framework I have personally seen
— Bret Taylor (Director of Products, Facebook)
I’m pretty sure that textile is the right way to produce content for the web, and that WYSIWYG editors are bad for your website. But editing a large chunk of textile using a textarea is not fun. I usually use Textmate to edit textile content, and wanted to reproduce the same feeling inside a browser.
The best online text editor is currently Bespin and I gave it a try. Unfortunately, the current state of bespin make it pretty difficult to embed the editor itself in a standalone way. Moreover I needed specifics features like ‘soft wrap’ that is totally required to edit some textile content.
So I took the Bespin way, and started to hack using javascript and HTML5 canvas to create a simple, standalone and totally embeddable textile editor for the web.
Check it out; and the code is available on github.