Better Web IDE

I can see how Angular can really work for websites, and I have used similar things in production sites I've done and I've loved it. I just think in this case (with very few views, not many controls, but lots of code) it might do more harm than good.

At the moment, I just see that your current version reintroduces a lot of the pain I was trying to avoid with the refactor (having every UI element on the main page defined in one place). It's not a major issue at the moment, but when people try and contribute extra things (just look at the existing non-refactored Web IDE's main.html) it turns into a complete mess really quickly.

For HTML - I get the formatting issue - but does it matter? I use Chrome element inspector and that formats it all nicely for me anyway :) I just wonder what things like the settings page would look like with dynamically loaded HTML...

from:

html += '<input name="'+configName+'" type="checkbox" style="float: right;" '+(value?"checked":"")+'/>';

to:

$.get("/templates/settings_input_checkbo­x_"+(value?"checked":"unchecked")+".html­", function(data) {
 $(data.replace("{{name}}",configName)).a­ppendTo(".settings .current");
});

Doesn't seem much better to me. I'd be totally with you on using jQuery to build the elements though - and that would solve the escaping issue:

$( '<input/>' ).attr({
  name: configName,
  type: "checkbox"
  // ...
});

And then maybe anything that's more complex than a simple element gets loaded from a file? Although I hope there won't be too much of that.

Wrt plugins: I've had a bad time with them to be honest. Better support is great - except keeping each one of your plugins up to date is a nightmare... And what happens when you update jQuery and that breaks a bunch of them, and you find your plugin hasn't been updated since 2006?

So I'm really not convinced for the smaller stuff - but for the big things, awesome - and to be honest the Terminal is a big thing (I just didn't find a workable version when I started making the Web IDE so I had to roll my own)...

Anyway, thanks for looking into it!