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I’m begging the community—could someone build a simple IDE on top of Mozilla? I’m talking just a big text editor window, access to the filesystem and code-coloring. That’s all I need. I do everything else in Firefox already (how did we ever program for the web before Firebug?) and if I could just switch tabs to write the actual code, I would be in HEAVEN.

Right now I’m using TextMate on my Mac, which I love, but there aren’t any features in there that I use that couldn’t be duplicated in this barebones Mozilla/Firefox IDE. I’d even define the syntax for the code coloring myself if it was extensible enough to do so (it would have to be to support all the languages that people would want to use this for). Out the box I would want HTML, CSS, Javascript and Ruby/Rails. I will happily build the lexicons for those syntaxes, someone just give me the format they want them in! Might I suggest TextMate’s highly customizable Bundles as a potential drop-in?

I don’t care about refactoring, automated builds or even code hinting. Files and colors are all I need (although being able to define a Project would be a nice-to-have). I’ve looked into Mozilla development and it’s just going to take too much of an investment in time to get ramped up to the point that I could actually begin to write something useful, so I’m begging someone out there who already knows what they’re doing to help me out! I’d even pay for the damn thing!

Anyone?