- TopStyle
Infobox_Software
name = TopStyle
caption =
developer = NewsGator Technologies
latest_release_version = 3.5
operating_system = Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=TopStyle newsgator.com]TopStyle is an CSS/
XHTML /HTML editor forMicrosoft Windows developed by Nick Bradbury and owned by NewsGator Technologies. The editor is code centric rather thanWYSIWYG , with integrated support for previews using either theMozilla Gecko orInternet Explorer Tridentlayout engine s. The software is available as a commercial version with a trial period, or a free version with fewer features. As of 2006,Linux orMac OS versions are not planned. [ [http://newsgator.mykbpro.com/Article_93A86.aspx NewsGator Knowledge Base ] ]History
TopStyle was created by Nick Bradbury. He also created
Macromedia HomeSite (then just "HomeSite") in 1995. HomeSite was acquired byAllaire in March 1997,Macromedia in 2001, and finally (as of 2006)Adobe Systems . Nick Bradbury left the company to foundBradbury Software in 2003 and created the editor TopStyle and a news aggregator titledFeedDemon . Bradbury Software was acquired by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005. [ [http://www.bradsoft.com/about.asp About Nick Bradbury ] ] (a company unrelated toClaria Corporation and theiradware Gator e-Wallet.)Features
TopStyle supports HTML, XHTML, and CSS editing in various revisions, along with powerful checking for standards and browser compatibility issues. Checking optionally covers a variety of levels, such as a strict
W3C CSS specifications, to issues on a wide variety of browsers. This style checker feature not only provides detailed warning messages, but enables the user to visually see if parts of HTML or CSS code would be incompatible with a particular browser.The software additionally supports converting deprecated HTML styling to CSS code, and converting HTML code to valid XHTML and checking for orphaned code or pages.
TopStyle integrates with
HTML Tidy , and W3C's validation services. It also integrates with a number of editors and tools by other parties.Syntax color coding for PHP, ASP, CFML, CSS, XHTML, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript is included.
Future
TopStyle 3.5 was released on October 15 2007 (version 3.5.0.9). New features include better support for Windows Vista and browsers released since TopStyle 3.12 (Safari 2 for Windows, IE7, Firefox 2, Opera 9), Box Spy (tool that shows padding/margins of boxes in the preview window) and many more including a large number of bug fixes and improvements.
References
ee also
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List of HTML editors
*Comparison of HTML editors
*Validator External links
* [http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/TopStyle/ Official TopStyle home]
** [http://forum.newsgator.com/Forum16-1.aspx Support and feature request forums]
* [http://newsgator.mykbpro.com/ NewsGator Knowledge Base]
* [http://nick.typepad.com/ Developer blog]
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