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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.
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General information
Editor Version Creator Cost (USD) Software license Website Amaya 11.3.1 (December 9, 2009) W3C, INRIA Free W3C [1] Aptana 3.0.6 (October 26, 2011) Aptana Free APL/GPL [2] Arachnophilia 5.4.2461 (March 31, 2011) Paul Lutus Free Careware[3] [4] Bluefish 2.0.3 (march 11, 2011) Bluefish Free GPL [5] BlueGriffon 1.2.1 (September 30, 2011) Disruptive Innovations Free MPL/GPL/LGPL [6] Claris Homepage (Discontinued) 3.0 (1998) Claris Proprietary ? Coda 1.7.4 (2007) Panic, Inc. $99 Proprietary No CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2010SE (August 4, 2010) CoffeeCup Software US $49 Proprietary [7] Contribute CS5.5 (7) Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) US $199 Proprietary [8] Dreamweaver CS5.5 (11.0) 12 April 2010 Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) US $399 Proprietary [9] EZGenerator 3.0 Image-Line US $129 Proprietary [10] Freeway 5.4.2 (November 2009) Softpress US $79(Express)/$249(Pro) Proprietary [11] GoLive (Discontinued) 9.0 (June 1, 2007) Adobe Systems (formerly GoLive Systems) US $399 Proprietary [12] HTML-Kit 292 Chami.com Free ($79 optional registration) Proprietary [13] KompoZer 0.7.10/0.8b3 (August 30, 2007/ March 1, 2010) Kaze Free MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 [14] Microsoft Expression Web 4.0.1165.0 (June 7, 2010) Microsoft US $129 Proprietary [15] Microsoft FrontPage (Discontinued) 2003 (October 21, 2003) Microsoft US $199 Proprietary [16] Microsoft FrontPage Express (Discontinued) Microsoft Free Proprietary Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (December 4, 2006) Microsoft Free Proprietary [17] Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Microsoft Free Proprietary [18] Mozilla Composer (Discontinued) 1.7.13 (April 21, 2006) Mozilla Foundation Free MPL/GPL/LGPL [19] Nvu (Discontinued) 1.0 (June 28, 2005) Linspire / Daniel Glazman Free MPL/GPL/LGPL [20] OpenBEXI 3.1 (February, 2011) Arcazj Free GPL [21] OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 (January 25, 2011) Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) Free GPL [22] Quanta Plus 3.5.9 (February 20, 2008) The Quanta Team Free GPL [23] RapidWeaver 4.3.1 (November 18, 2009) Realmac Software US $79 Proprietary [24] SeaMonkey Composer 2.0.14 (April 28, 2011) SeaMonkey Council Free MPL/GPL/LGPL [25] WebStorm IDE 2.1 (May 19, 2011) WebStorm IDE US $69 Proprietary [26] Editor Version Creator Cost (USD) Software license Website Operating system support
Editor Windows Mac OS X Mac OS 9 Linux BSD Unix Amaya Yes Yes No Yes source only source only Aptana Yes Yes No Yes No No Arachnophilia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Bluefish Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes BlueGriffon Yes Yes No 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 No No No EZGenerator Yes No No No No No Freeway No Yes Dropped No No No 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 OpenBEXI Yes No No Yes Yes 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 WebStorm IDE Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Editor Windows Mac OS X Mac OS 9 Linux BSD Unix Editor features
Editor WYSIWYG FTP Upload WebDAV Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates Templates Update Sync Page Preview Form Handler 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 ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? Bluefish No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? BlueGriffon Yes Yes
(via add-on)[5]No ? No Yes Yes No Yes ? 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 Yes EZGenerator Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? Freeway Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? 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 Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes ? OpenBEXI Yes Yes ? Yes No Yes Yes Yes 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 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
Editor CSS2 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath 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 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes BlueGriffon Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes
(via add-on)[7]? ? ? ? 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 Freeway Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No 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 OpenBEXI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes 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 ? WebStorm IDE Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No ? ? Yes Editor CSS2 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath HTML/XHTML specification support
Specification HTML 3.2 HTML 4.0 HTML 4.01 HTML 5 XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.1 Validating Variant strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set Amaya No No No No No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Aptana ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Arachnophilia ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[8] BlueGriffon No No No No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Claris Homepage ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? CoffeeCup HTML Editor No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Contribute ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dreamweaver Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes [9] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Freeway Yes No No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes GoLive Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? HTML-Kit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? KompoZer No No No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Microsoft Expression Web No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes[10] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Microsoft FrontPage ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Microsoft SharePoint Designer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Microsoft Visual Web Developer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Composer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? OpenBEXI ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? OpenOffice.org ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Quanta Gold ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Quanta Plus ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? RapidWeaver ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Composer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? WebStorm IDE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Image format support
Editor JPEG GIF PNG MNG APNG TIFF SVG Amaya Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Aptana Yes Yes Yes No
(coming soon)? Yes Depends Arachnophilia ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bluefish Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes BlueGriffon Yes Yes Yes No Yes
(presumed)? Yes Claris Homepage Yes Yes No No ? No No CoffeeCup HTML Editor Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes No Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes Freeway 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 OpenBEXI Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes 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 WebStorm IDE Yes Yes Yes No ? No No Editor JPEG GIF PNG MNG APNG TIFF SVG References
- ^ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions About FrontPage". Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/frontpage/2002faq.asp. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
- ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ Amaya homepage on templates
- ^ FireFtp for BlueGriffon
- ^ not Unicode-savvy
- ^ BlueGriffon homepage includes MathML add-on information
- ^ External tools such as weblint and tidy are integrated
- ^ Available with CS5 using the Adobe Dreamweaver Add-on pack available at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/html5pack.html
- ^ For error checking on markup and intellisense on tags and attributes an add-in is needed. This is available at http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/Web4HTML5SchemaAddIn .
- ^ 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
- Tableless web design
- mw:WYSIWYG editor - WYSIWYG editing and software for MediaWiki and some wiki farms.
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