Simon Willison’s Weblog

Implementing a syntax-higlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript. Appropriately subtitled “a brutal odyssey to the dark side of the DOM tree”. Some seriously clever trickery going on here.

# 4th April 2008, 8:27 am / dom, javascript, syntaxhighlighting

EditArea. Impressive JavaScript source code editor, with syntax highlighting, brace matching, search and replace and more.

# 1st January 2008, 12:09 pm / bracematching, editarea, editor, javascript, syntaxhighlighting

AppJet: Instant Web Programming. Another attempt at simple server-side JavaScript application hosting. Worth checking out for the impressive syntax highlighting code editor, which even matches braces.

# 15th December 2007, 3:37 pm / appjet, hosting, javascript, syntaxhighlighting, y-combinator

CodePress. “Real Time Syntax Highlighting Editor written in JavaScript”.

# 7th August 2007, 10:49 pm / codepress, javascript, syntaxhighlighting