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Revision as of 16:22, 9 December 2009
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.
This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Please see the individual products' articles for further information, and Comparison of text editors for information on text editors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.
General information
Operating system support
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Editor | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
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Amaya | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | source only | source only |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BestAddress HTML Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Bluefish | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Claris Homepage | Terminated (3.0) | No | Terminated (3.0) | No | No | No |
CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Contribute | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Dropped | Partial (Wine) | No | No |
Evrsoft First Page | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Freeway | No | Yes | Dropped | No | No | No |
GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GoLive | Terminated (9.0) | Terminated (9.0) | Dropped (6.0) | No | No | No |
HTML-Kit | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
KompoZer [1] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Microsoft FrontPage | Terminated (2003) | No | Dropped (1998)[2] | No | No | No |
Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Mozilla Composer | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Dropped (1.2.1) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) |
Nvu [3] | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No |
Girasol Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | source only | source only |
Quanta Gold | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Quanta Plus | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RapidWeaver | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Editor | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
Editor features
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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[4] | No | ? | |
Aptana | No | Yes | ? | Yes (via plugins) | Yes | No | Some (i.e. Snippets) | ? | Yes | |
Arachnophilia | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
BestAddress HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Bluefish | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Evrsoft First Page | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | |
Freeway | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | |
Girasol Editor | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
GNU Emacs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[5] | ? | Yes | |
GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
HTML-Kit | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
KompoZer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Microsoft FrontPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Nvu | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | No (cvs instead) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
RapidWeaver | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | |
Editor | WYSIWYG | FTP Upload | WebDAV Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates | Templates Update Sync | Page Preview |
Web technology support
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Editor | CSS2 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML Template:Refun | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
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Amaya[6] | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
BestAddress HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Bluefish | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Claris Homepage | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
Evrsoft First Page | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Freeway | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes[8] | Yes | Yes[9][10] | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
HTML-Kit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
KompoZer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft FrontPage | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nvu | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
RapidWeaver | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Editor | CSS2 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML Template:Refun | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
Image format support
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Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | MNG | TIFF | SVG |
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Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (coming soon) | Yes | Depends |
Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
BestAddress HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Bluefish | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Evrsoft First Page | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Freeway | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Girasol Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
KompoZer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Microsoft FrontPage[11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends | Yes? | Depends |
Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (next version) | Yes | Yes |
RapidWeaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | MNG | TIFF | SVG |
References
- ^ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions About FrontPage". Microsoft. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
- ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ Amaya homepage on templates
- ^ Yasnippet
- ^ not Unicode-savvy
- ^ JDEE for Emacs
- ^ Various Javascript modules for Emacs
- ^ Emacs nXml for XML
- ^ Emacs nXhtml for XHTML, php etc
- ^ Actual amount of supported formats depend on installed converter. FrontPage uses Microsoft Office converters.
See also
- HTML editor
- List of HTML editors
- Comparison of text editors
- Comparison of word processors
- Website builder
- mw:WYSIWYG editor - WYSIWYG editing and software for MediaWiki and some wiki farms.