josephshenton / codepress

The first real-time code syntax highlighting engine on the web

CodePress

The first real-time code syntax highlighting engine on the web used by Google and Wordpress back in 2006-2008.

CodePress was a source code syntax highlight engine I made as the final project for my bachelor's degree in Computer Science. At the time, making a real-time syntax highlighting engine on a browser was a very hard task. Browsers did not have support for this feature. It was a big hack to make it work. Today, using modern browsers, this can be accomplished in simpler ways.

For historic purposes only. This code do not work on modern browsers.

CodePress

CodePress on Wordpress v2.8

CodePress on Google Mashup Editor

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Description from the original site

CodePress is web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it's being typed in the browser.

Features

• Real-time syntax highlighting
• Code snippets
• Code auto completion
• Shortcuts
• Multiple windows/instances