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November 23, 2004
Very few XHTML editors
Dan Wellman is a contributing author for www.devarticles.com and his latest article reviews a few html editors capable of producing valid Xhtml. He claims there are few choices so far, which may have something to do with Xhtml being "relatively" new.
But the good news is... it might not cost you anything.
He said:
I have attempted to weed out the good and the bad and to explain why, and after looking at and using all of these applications myself, I can safely say that I see no reason why money need be spent at all when deciding to switch to an XHTML editor.
Dan recommends HTML Gate 2005 from MPS (www.mpsoftware.dk) so I decided I had better have a look at it. No doubt about it. It does come with an impressive list of features and what's more you can set it to a DTD of Xhtml 1.0 strict and set the program in WYSIWYG mode. Of course... you may have to do some editing to the code produced it you hoped to validate it.
Here are some of the features:
The FastEdit (WYSIWYG) takes you one further step into better design and the W3's HTML Tidy helps you to easily check and reformat your web-documents after the W3 standard.
The TaskPanel includes 7 different code libraries, tag inspector, project manager, 2 file browser, HTML parser and other useful task tools.
Nothing less than 100 script samples including DHTML, JavaScript and VBScripts.
Other features includes FTP, ToDo Manager, HTML compressor, image effects, image converters, GIF animator, GIF SizeOptimizer and many other exciting features and tools.
There is a lot more to it then what I've listed here. To be honest, I think it would take me a few days playing with it to see how much I liked it. There aer too many features and tools to learn them all by simply editing one quick webpage with it.
Maybe this is the THE development tool for 2005. Download a copy since it is free. Post your comments here if you want, telling me what you liked or disliked about it.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 23, 2004 06:22 AM
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