Arachnophilia
| File:Arach.png | |
| Screenshot of the HTML editor Arachnophila Screenshot of Arachnophila editing an HTML document | |
| Developer(s) | Paul Lutus |
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| Stable release | 5.4.2411
/ October 26, 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | HTML editor |
| License | Careware |
| Website | www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia |
Arachnophilia is a popular source code editor written in Java by Paul Lutus. It is known to be a successor to another HTML editor WebThing. The program is licensed as a Careware[1] type of software. The program's name comes from the term meaning "love of spiders", a metaphor for the task of building on the World Wide Web.
History
Once written as a Windows application, the program was rewritten by Lutus in Java as part of his boycott against Microsoft and its product activation features for Windows XP products. To work, Arachnophilia requires the Java 2 runtime environment, release 1.5 or later installed.
Features
The program can import and convert to HTML various RTF documents, tables and outlines from any Windows 95 (and above) compliant application. It supports up to six web browsers, CGI, frames and other languages beside HTML, for instance PHP, Perl, C++, Java, and JavaScript development.
Other features include:
- multiple-document interface
- user-customizable toolbars
- full drag and drop support
- global search and replace
- built-in FTP client
- automatic uploading of files
- user-defined templates