If you look at the requests for that page you'll realize that some static files are missing. That's because you miss the codemirror folder into admin/static : it's not bundled yet with web2py (download the archive from codemirror.net and extract it in admin/static/codemirror directory).
On Sunday, September 9, 2012 2:15:29 PM UTC+2, Jose wrote: > > > > El domingo, 9 de septiembre de 2012 01:26:40 UTC-3, Massimo Di Pierro > escribió: >> >> we are considering replacing the admin editor with codemirror since it >> should work with IE. >> >> Can you please help us try it? >> >> get web2py form github and edit admin/models/0.py and set the editor to >> 'codemirror'. >> >> let us know what browser you try and your findings. >> >> Massimo >> > > looks bad > > Test in Chromium 21.0.1180.81 (151980) and Firefox 13.0 on FreeBSD 9.0 > --