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Encyclopedia > Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of (purportedly) WYSIWYG HTML editors. 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. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. ... This article provides a basic feature comparison for several text editors. ...

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General information

Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.

Editor Version Creator Cost (USD) Software license Open source?
Amaya 9.3 W3C, INRIA Free W3C Yes
Composer 1.7 Mozilla Foundation Free MPL/GPL/LGPL Yes
Dreamweaver 8 Adobe (formerly Macromedia) US $399 Proprietary No
FrontPage 2003 Microsoft US $199 Proprietary No
Nvu 1.0 Linspire, Inc., Daniel Glazman Free MPL/GPL/LGPL Yes

ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA. Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80s, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (W3). ... The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ... W3C Software Notice and License is an Open Source licence used by software released by W3C, like Amaya. ... Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite. ... The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... In computing, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) is an open source and free software license. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Nvu (pronounced N-view or en-vee-you depending on your preference and/or native language) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Daniel Glazman is a computer programmer, best known for his work on Mozillas Editor and Composer components. ... MPL may refer to: Mozilla Public License MPL Communications This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ...

Operating system support

Editor Windows Mac OS X Mac OS 9 Linux BSD Unix
Amaya Yes Yes No Yes source only source only
Composer Yes Yes Yes? Yes No? No?
Dreamweaver Yes Yes No No No No
FrontPage Yes No No[1] No No No
Nvu[2] Yes Yes No? Yes Yes ?

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Sherlock 2 for Mac OS 9 with the new metallic appearance Mac OS 9, introduced by Apple Computer on 1999-10-23, is the last version of the Classic Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS) released before being succeeded by Mac OS X. Upon introduction, Mac OS 9 was advertised as... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA. Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80s, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on... Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Nvu (pronounced N-view or en-vee-you depending on your preference and/or native language) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1. ...

Editor features

Editor Dynamic Web page FTP Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates
Amaya No No No No Yes No
Composer No Yes? No No Yes No
Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FrontPage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Nvu ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes

In classical hypertext navigation occurs among static documents, and, for web users, this experience is reproduced using static web pages. ... “FTP” redirects here. ... Server-side scripting is a web server technology in which a users request is fulfilled by running a script directly on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages. ... A collaborative editor allows simultaneous editing of the same document or video by different participants using different computers. ... In computing terms, a spelling checker (also spell checker) is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. ... Shortcut: WP:TM Part of the Style and how-to series Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them. ... Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA. Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80s, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on... Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Nvu (pronounced N-view or en-vee-you depending on your preference and/or native language) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1. ...

Web technology support

Editor CSS2 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML  MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath
Amaya Partial No No No No Yes Yes No No No ?
Composer No Yes No Yes No No No No No No
Dreamweaver Partial Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes
FrontPage Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Nvu Yes No No Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?

In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... In computing, an HTML element indicates structure in an HTML document and a way of hierarchically arranging content. ... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporations and now the Mozilla Foundations implementation of the ECMAScript standard, a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. ... Diagram of the basic elements and process flow of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but a stricter syntax. ... Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is an application of XML for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. ... XForms is two things: 1. ... For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. ... XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language for addressing portions of an XML document, or for computing values (strings, numbers, or boolean values) based on the content of an XML document. ... Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA. Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80s, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on... Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Nvu (pronounced N-view or en-vee-you depending on your preference and/or native language) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1. ...

Image format support

Editor JPEG GIF PNG MNG TIFF SVG EPS PDF
Amaya Yes Yes Yes maybe Yes Partial ? No
Composer Yes Yes Yes No No No ? No
Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes No No No ? Yes
FrontPage[3] Yes Yes Yes Depends Yes? Depends ? Depends
Nvu Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ?
  1. ^ A version for Mac OS was released around 1998, but has since been discontinued.
  2. ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
  3. ^ Actual amount of supported formats depend on installed converter. FrontPage uses Microsoft Office converters.

In computing, JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg; IPA: ) is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. ... An example of a GIF image. ... PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. ... Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) (IPA pronunciation: ) is a public graphics file format for animated images. ... “TIFF” redirects here. ... Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated, and either declarative or scripted. ... Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a graphics file format. ... Portable Document Format (PDF), sometimes mistaken for Printable Document Format, is an open file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 and is now being prepared for submission as an ISO standard. ... Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA. Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80s, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on... Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite. ... Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web design software application developed by Macromedia. ... Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Nvu (pronounced N-view or en-vee-you depending on your preference and/or native language) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apples Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. ...

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