Investigate Ace editor mobile support

Problem to solve

The Web IDE does not have good support for mobile devices because it is built on Monaco which does not support mobile devices. The Ace editor used by the single file editor doesn't has better support.

We only want to have one editing interface &498 (closed), so we should investigate and document the differences in capabilities between the two on mobile devices.

Proposal

Document the differences so that we can either:

  • decide that the benefits of Ace do not out weight switching to Web IDE (Monaco) on mobile devices, or
  • decide that we need to keep Ace until such a time as Monaco fixes enough issues, or we replace Monaco with something else with better mobile support

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