Open Komodo for Web dev platform debuts

The Komodo Dev Team has created Open Komodo, an open source platform for building development environments based on Komodo IDE and featuring the open-sourced code base from Komodo Edit. The new project is focused on development using dynamic languages and Internet technologies and is built using web-based technologies and dynamic languages, It is extensible using XML, JavaScript, and if you like, Python and C++. Komodo Snapdragon is an open web and open standards initiative of ActiveState using Open Komodo. Komodo Snapdragon aims to be a full-featured open-source web development tool be built in collaboration with the open source community, and integrated with Firefox, Mozilla's free, open source web browser.

ActiveState is the developer Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit, Web development language tools that include support for developing with Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl.

A Komodo Community site now hosts user-created extensions. Installed extensions can be auto-updated, just like in Firefox. There is also a new spell checker, the cursor shape is now configurable and the code Browser's filter now supports regular expressions (Python syntax). New for Perl is a debugger and autocomplete improvements; and new for Python are code intelligence and code browser updates.

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