The Orion project's focus is creating components, services, and libraries for building web-based development tools. This includes browser client infrastructure built using widely adopted web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Also included is server-side infrastructure needed by such development tools. This includes infrastructure supporting file management, search, user management, preferences, generic source control, compare, file history, editors, and user interface widgets and controls required to build development tools.
Also of importance are the necessary tools to be able to self-host, i.e. to develop Orion using Orion itself. We believe this feedback loop of being our own customer is critical to us producing stable, high quality, and truly useful development tools. As such, tools for specific web technologies used by Orion will be in scope for this project. This includes development tools for programming JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, web site production and related technologies. Orion will also produce source control integration tools as required for our development purposes. Producing these exemplary tools will allow us to continuously evaluate the quality and value of our framework components and libraries.
