My vision of an idea J online IDE (i.e. JHS) is very similar to the Mibbit interface. See [1] for a screenshot and [2] for more information (including critical reception & reviews), and [3] to try it yourself (if you're familiar with IRC).
Mibbit has everything JHS would need. Its IRC windows are very much like IJX windows, it has line recall & logging, it supports multiple tabs (within a single browser tab), it has a docked list (which we could use for locales, names, etc), it supports sessions with and without logging in, highlighting, user preferences with a convenient interface, you can bookmark specific configurations (i.e. workspaces), and all the rest. It's an AJAX platform and works nearly flawlessly with all modern browsers (even less popular browsers, like my favorite, Opera). I've actually used it as a J IDE in the past, running against Ambrus' jevalbots (5]. Unfortunately, I don't think Mibbit is open source, or even built on top of an open source platform (like Drupal or anything). But IMO it's certainly a light to aim at, and would give us a reference for the JHS features/roadmap discussion (e.g. we could discuss whether we want multiple HTML "tabs" within a single browser tab, like Mibbit has -- I know I'd prefer that). -Dan [1] Screenshot http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Mibbit_screenshot.png [2] About Mibbit (links to acclaim for its UI) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mibbit [3] Try it out: http://www.mibbit.com [4] Mibbit source & license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mibbit#License [5] Sadly, that's no longer possible, because Freenode blocked Mibbit, and Freenode's web chat UI is lightyears behind Mibbit's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
