Comparison of HTML editors
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.
Please see the individual products' articles for further information, and comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.
General information
| Editor | Version | Year | Creator | Software license | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | 11.4.4 (January 18) | 2012 | W3C, INRIA | W3C | |
| Aptana Studio | 3.6.0 (August 1) | 2014 | Aptana | GPL | |
| Arachnophilia | 5.5, build 2837 (March 4) | 2014 | Paul Lutus [1] | LGPL | |
| Bluefish | 2.2.8 (January 24) | 2016 | Bluefish | GPL | |
| BlueGriffon | 1.8 (October 13) | 2015 | Disruptive Innovations | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | |
| Brackets | Release 1.5 (October 10) | 2015 | Adobe | MIT License | |
| Claris Homepage (Discontinued) | 3.0 | 1998 | Claris | Proprietary | ? |
| Coda | 2 | 2012 | Panic, Inc. | Proprietary | |
| Codelobster | 5.6 | 2015 | Codelobster Software | Proprietary | |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | 2010SE (August 4) | 2010 | CoffeeCup Software | Proprietary | |
| Contribute | CS6.5 (8)(August 23) | 2012 | Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) | Proprietary | |
| Dreamweaver | CC 2014 (14.1) (6 October) | 2014 | Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) | Proprietary | |
| EZGenerator | 4.1 (December) | 2012 | Image-Line | Proprietary | |
| Freeway | 5.4.2 (November) | 2009 | Softpress | Proprietary | |
| GoLive (Discontinued) | 9.0 (June 1) | 2007 | Adobe Systems (formerly GoLive Systems) | Proprietary | |
| Google Web Designer | (April) | 2014 | Google, Inc. | Proprietary | |
| HTML-Kit | 292 | Chami.com | Proprietary | ||
| KompoZer (Discontinued) | 0.7.10/0.8b3 (August 30, 2007/ March 1, 2010) | 2010 | Kaze | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | |
| LibreOffice | 5.0.4 (December) | 2015 | The Document Foundation | Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others | |
| Maqetta | Preview 5 (March 28) | 2012 | IBM | BSD or AFL | |
| Microsoft Expression Web (Discontinued) | 4.0.1460.0 (December 20) | 2012 | Microsoft | Proprietary | |
| Microsoft Office FrontPage (Discontinued) | 11.0.8174 (October 21) | 2003 | Microsoft | Proprietary | |
| Microsoft FrontPage Express (Discontinued) | 2.0 | 1997 | Microsoft | Proprietary | |
| Web Architect | 6.9.1 (July 25) | 2012 | mirabyte | Proprietary | |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer (Discontinued) | 2007 (December 4) | 2006 | Microsoft | Proprietary | |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | 2008 | Microsoft | Proprietary | ||
| Mozilla Composer (Discontinued) | 1.7.13 (April 21) | 2006 | Mozilla Foundation | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | |
| Nvu (Discontinued) | 1.0 (June 28) | 2005 | Linspire / Daniel Glazman | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 | |
| openElement | 1.44 (January 21) | 2014 | openElement | Apache License 2.0 | |
| OpenOffice.org | 4.1.1 (August) | 2014 | Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) | Mozilla Public License/Apache License 2.0/others | |
| oXygenXML Editor[2] | 17.1 (October) | 2015 | Syncro Soft | Proprietary (some components Apache License 2.0) | |
| Quanta Plus | 3.5.9 (February 20) | 2008 | The Quanta Team | GPL | |
| SeaMonkey Composer | 2.39 (November 8) | 2015 | SeaMonkey Council | MPL | |
| TextMate | 2.0 Preview (August 12) | 2012 | Macromates | GPL | |
| TOWeb | 5.07 (July 28) | 2013 | Lauyan Software | Proprietary | |
| WebStorm IDE | 7.0 (September 26) | 2013 | WebStorm IDE | Proprietary | |
| Editor | Version | Year | Creator | Software license | Website |
Operating system support
| Editor | Windows | OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
| Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Claris Homepage | Terminated (3.0) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Contribute | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| EZGenerator | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Freeway | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| GoLive | Terminated (9.0) | Terminated (9.0) | No | No | No | No | No |
| HTML-Kit | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| KompoZer [3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
| Maqetta | Yes | Yes | Cloud[4] | Cloud[4] | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Terminated (2003) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Web Architect | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla Composer | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | No | No |
| Nvu [5] | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No | No | No |
| openElement | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Quanta Gold (deprecated) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Quanta Plus | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| TOWeb | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| WebStorm IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Editor | Windows | OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
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[6] | No | Yes | ? |
| 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 | No (add-on)[7] |
No | ? | No | Yes | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[8] |
No | Yes | ? |
| Brackets | "Live Preview" in-browser | Yes (via extension) | No | Yes | No | Yes (via extension) | Yes (via extension) | No | Yes | ? |
| Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Codelobster | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | No | 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 | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| HTML-Kit | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| KompoZer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Maqetta | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | 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 | ? |
| Web Architect | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| openElement | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Partial (more like WYSIWYM) | Yes and SFTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial (via XSLT to browser) | maybe, depends on type. |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | No (cvs instead) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
| TOWeb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | 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[9] | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[10] |
? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)[11] |
? | ? | ? | ? |
| Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Claris Homepage | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | ? | 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 |
| LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes (optional) | Yes (and Python) | Yes (that's how export works) | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Maqetta | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 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 |
| openElement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| TOWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Web Architect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| 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 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variant | strict | trans. | f.set | strict | trans. | f.set | ||||
| Amaya | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Aptana | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[12] |
| BlueGriffon | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Brackets | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Claris Homepage | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Codelobster | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Contribute | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freeway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| HTML-Kit | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
| LibreOffice | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| KompoZer | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[14] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft FrontPage | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Mozilla Composer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| openElement | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| OpenOffice.org | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Gold | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Quanta Plus | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| SeaMonkey Composer | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| TOWeb | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Web Architect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[15] |
| WebStorm IDE | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Variant | strict | trans. | f.set | strict | trans. | f.set | ||||
| Specification | HTML 3.2 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating | ||||
Image format support
| Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends |
| Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (via extension)[16] |
| Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freeway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| KompoZer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage[17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Depends |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| openElement | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| TOWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Web Architect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends |
| WebStorm IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |
Early HTML comparisons
The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.
| Program | Author | Version | System | HTML Compliant | Display | Forms | Tables | Integrated Browser | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkhtml | Liem Bahenmann | 2.3 | Unix | No | source | Yes | No | No | freeware |
| asWedit | Andrzej Stochniol | 1.1 | Unix | HTML 3 | source | Yes | Yes | No | freeware |
| Phoenix | University of Chicago | 0.1.7 | Unix | No | WYSIWYG | No | No | Yes | freeware |
| Webtor | Jochen Schales | .91prealpha2 | Macintosh | HTML2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | freeware |
| WebPages | DART Software | 1.7 | NextStep | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| WebMagic | SiliconGraphics | 1 | Irix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| Live Markup | MediaTech | 16b4a | Windows | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| HoTMetaL | SoftQuad | 1.0+ | Unix,Windows | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | Partial | No | No | freeware |
| HoTMetaL pro | SoftQuad | 1 | Unix, Windows, Macintosh | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | No | commercial |
| Symposia | GRIF | 0.8 | Unix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | Yes | beta |
Mintert, Stefan (1995). "WWW-Dokumente komfortabel erstellen: Weberknechte". iX (in German) 8: 54–66.
See also
References
- ↑ "Paul Lutus". 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- ↑ Though the focus of this software is clearly XML, it covers so much of the HTML and XHTML features (all of them, basically) as well as generating HTML and XHTML based documents and sites (e.g. WebHelp, ePub, etc.) that leaving it out just appears a bit weird.
- ↑ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- 1 2 [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maquetta is running in the cloud.]
- ↑ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ↑ Amaya homepage on templates
- ↑ Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client
- ↑ Bluegriffon's commercial proprietary One click templates add-on
- ↑ not Unicode-savvy
- ↑ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/CssEditor BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary CSS editor add-on
- ↑ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/MathML BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary MathML add-on
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ External tools such as W3C validator services and tidy are integrated
- ↑
- ↑ Actual amount of supported formats depend on installed converter. FrontPage uses Microsoft Office converters.
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