Browser vi !!

Today, I found a interesting find. At the office I was wondering if anybody has given a try to develop vi(unix text editor) in browser. Thinking that this thought is a rear idea, if not I could give an attempt. With a grin on my face, I opened up Google homepage and gave a couple of tries, and voilà, I got a hit and this page seems to be what I had in my mind.

http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

I gave it a try. As soon as the page opened, the block cursor started blinking at the top left side of the browser page. First I tried search command and it seems to be working. With my eyebrow raised for more vi features, I gave a try for ":se nu". Sadly this command didn't work, instead I got a weird error. So I tried getting help as done in vanilla "vi" using ":help" command. This too didn't work. The command showed up a message, but nothing more than that. With the grin fading out on my face, i tried moving cursor up and down. Finding that this was working, I entered into insert mode and added some text here and there, things were fine here. Now for coming out of the insert mode I pressed "ESC" button. It didn't work. It seems browser is trapping the ESC button and not letting javascript to get the event.

Disappointed with this, I had to close the tab forcefully and exit.

Why am I sticking to chrome!!

I have been using Google Chrome since its first official release, I remember downloading it on the very first day I saw on the internet and other media. With all the hype that was created for this browser the first thing I did when I started using chrome is get to know how it is different from other browsers. Once I watched the youtube video about chrome, I'm clear about the know hows. Here are some of the reasons why I'm still using chrome.

First of all the UI, the way it is put up with out wasting any space on screen is what I liked the most. The elimination of the title bar and replacing that with the tab selection, is an wonderful idea.

The omni bar. omni bar is overloaded with multiple functions. Its used as both address bar as well as googling.

Google chrome resembles Mozilla Firefox, for example in Firefox if I have to view source of particular webpage one can use, view-source: syntax in the address bar. This kind of shortcuts are all supported by chrome as well. This made migration to chrome smooth. No extra time spent for learning some new funda.

I felt for a novice user, the developer tools provided by Chrome are better(in the sense of usability) than what we have in Firefox. I do know that Firefox has many extensions which are damn powerful, but I think in time Chrome will be catching up with Firefox. As of now for the kind of work I do I'm happy with what Chrome's inbuilt developer tools provide.

Incognito mode is another thing I love about Chrome, if I want to logon to my two accounts on gmail, I can logon using incognito mode.

Thats it for now.