Is there a good embeddable code widget for blogs

Question

My co-founder is currently asking on our blog for an embeddable code widget.

http://devver.net/blog/2008/10/someone-please-build-an-awesome-embeddable-code-widget/

Basically we want something like http://pastie.org/ or http://codepad.org/ but we really want to embed the code section in our blog. We know there are plugins for common blogs and server side solutions, but it would be great to be able to just embed a little javascript and have nicely formatted code anywhere...

Does something like this exist? Have we just missed it?

Answer 1

I think you want a javascript syntax highlighter

• http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

• http://shjs.sourceforge.net/

• http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+syntax+highlighter

Sometimes you just keep thinking in the wrong keywords ;-)

Answer 2

Check out CodeRay and UltraViolet. They're both quite good and easy to use.

Answer 3

I think some of the answers to this question might be helpful for your question.

Answer 4

We had a user point out a WordPress plugin that uses Gist to do exactly what we were asking for...

http://pomoti.com/gist-it-english

Even if you don't use the plug in it looks like a feature of Gist lets you embed the code anywhere you want on the web. http://gist.github.com

Looks pretty sweet. Thanks goes to Dirceu Jr.