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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.
Please see the individual products' articles for further information, and comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.
General information
[edit]Editor | Version | Year | Creator | Software license | Website |
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Amaya (Discontinued) | 11.4.4 (January 18) | 2012 | W3C, INRIA | W3C | [2] |
Aptana Studio | 3.6.0 (August 1) | 2014 | Aptana | GPL | [3] |
Arachnophilia | 5.5, build 2914 (January 11) | 2016 | Paul Lutus [1] | LGPL | [4] |
Bluefish | 2.2.9 (June 16) | 2016 | Bluefish | GPL | [5] |
BlueGriffon | 1.8 (October 13) | 2015 | Disruptive Innovations | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | [6] [7] |
Brackets | Release 1.5 (October 10) | 2015 | Adobe | MIT License | [8] |
KompoZer (Discontinued) | 0.7.10/0.8b3 (August 30, 2007/ March 1, 2010) | 2010 | Kaze | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | [9] |
LibreOffice | 5.0.4 (December) | 2015 | The Document Foundation | Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others | [10] |
Maqetta | Preview 5 (March 28) | 2012 | IBM | BSD or AFL | [11] |
Mozilla Composer (Discontinued) | 1.7.13 (April 21) | 2006 | Mozilla Foundation | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | [12] |
Nvu (Discontinued) | 1.0 (June 28) | 2005 | Linspire / Daniel Glazman | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | [13] |
openElement | 1.44 (January 21) | 2014 | openElement | Apache License 2.0 | [14] |
OpenOffice.org | 4.1.1 (August) | 2014 | Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) | Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others | [15] |
Quanta Plus (Discontinued) | 3.5.9 (February 20) | 2008 | The Quanta Team | GPL | [16] |
SeaMonkey Composer | 2.40 (March 10) | 2016 | SeaMonkey Council | MPL | [17] |
TextMate | 2.0 Preview (August 12) | 2012 | Macromates | GPL | [18] |
Editor | Version | Year | Creator | Software license | Website |
Operating system support
[edit]Editor | Windows | OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
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Amaya | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | No | No |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
KompoZer [2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
Maqetta | Yes | Yes | Cloud[3] | Cloud[3] | No | No | No |
Mozilla Composer | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | No | No |
Nvu [4] | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No | No | No |
openElement | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
Quanta Gold (deprecated) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Quanta Plus (Discontinued) | No | Terminated 2009 | Terminated 2009 | Terminated 2009 | Terminated 2009 | No | No |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Editor | Windows | OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
Editor features
[edit]Editor | WYSIWYG | FTP Upload | WebDAV Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates | Templates Update Sync | Page Preview | Form Handler |
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Amaya | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial[5] | No | Yes | ? |
Aptana | No | Yes | ? | Yes (via plugins) | Yes | No | Some (i.e. Snippets) | ? | Yes | ? |
Arachnophilia | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Bluefish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
BlueGriffon | Yes | No (add-on)[6] |
No | ? | No | Yes | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[7] |
No | Yes | ? |
Brackets | "Live Preview" in-browser | Yes (via extension) | No | Yes | No | Yes (via extension) | Yes (via extension) | No | Yes | ? |
KompoZer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Maqetta | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
openElement | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | No (cvs instead) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
Editor | WYSIWYG | FTP Upload | WebDAV Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates | Templates Update Sync | Page Preview | Form Handler |
Web technology support
[edit]Editor | CSS2 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
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Amaya[8] | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BlueGriffon | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[9] |
? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[10] |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
KompoZer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes (optional) | Yes (and Python) | Yes (that's how export works) | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Maqetta | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nvu | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
openElement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Editor | CSS2 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
HTML/XHTML specification support
[edit]Specification | HTML 3.2 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating | ||||
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Variant | strict | trans. | f.set | strict | trans. | f.set | ||||
Amaya | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Aptana | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[11] |
BlueGriffon | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Brackets | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LibreOffice | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
KompoZer | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mozilla Composer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
openElement | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
OpenOffice.org | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Quanta Gold | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quanta Plus | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SeaMonkey Composer | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Variant | strict | trans. | f.set | strict | trans. | f.set | ||||
Specification | HTML 3.2 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating |
Image format support
[edit]Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |
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Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends |
Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (via extension)[12] |
KompoZer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
openElement | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |
Early HTML comparisons
[edit]The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.
Program | Author | Version | System | HTML Compliant |
Display | Forms | Tables | Integrated Browser |
Cost |
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asWedit | Andrzej Stochniol | 1.1 | Unix | HTML 3 | source | Yes | Yes | No | freeware |
HoTMetaL | SoftQuad | 1.0+ | Unix,Windows | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | Partial | No | No | freeware |
HoTMetaL pro | SoftQuad | 1 | Unix, Windows, Macintosh | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | No | commercial |
Live Markup | MediaTech | 16b4a | Windows | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
Symposia | GRIF | 0.8 | Unix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | Yes | beta |
Tkhtml | Liem Bahenmann | 2.3 | Unix | No | source | Yes | No | No | freeware |
Phoenix | University of Chicago | 0.1.7 | Unix | No | WYSIWYG | No | No | Yes | freeware |
WebPages | DART Software | 1.7 | NextStep | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
WebMagic | SiliconGraphics | 1 | Irix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
Webtor | Jochen Schales | .91prealpha2 | Macintosh | HTML2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | freeware |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Paul Lutus". 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- ^ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ a b [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maquetta is running in the cloud.]
- ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ Amaya homepage on templates
- ^ Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client
- ^ Bluegriffon's commercial proprietary One click templates add-on
- ^ not Unicode-savvy
- ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/CssEditor BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary CSS editor add-on
- ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/MathML BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary MathML add-on
- ^ External tools such as weblint and tidy are integrated
- ^ [1]
Mintert, Stefan (1995). "WWW-Dokumente komfortabel erstellen: Weberknechte" [Create WWW documents comfortably]. iX (in German). 8: 54–66.