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Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:36 am
by patrikG
Does anyone know a good and easy freeware HTML-editor for Windows and/or Mac? There is no need for advanced stuff like server-side languages tag-highlighting, etc. Just a plain, straightforward HTML-editor with possibly some Javascript-options (no must that).
The background is that I'll be giving "Internet Induction" lessons and obviously there will be hands-on experience.
Thanks in advance.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:50 am
by Nay
1st Page 2000:
http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml#download_now
NOT a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Highlights codes and all. Tabing etc. Makes codes easier to read.
-Nay
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 7:47 am
by twigletmac
From what I've heard (haven't used it myself) HTML-kit is pretty good:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Mac
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:32 am
by patrikG
HTML-Kit is wonderful - very nice, everything I would wish for. I'll see how newbies will cope with the plethora of options.
I'll have a look at "1st Page 2000" tomorrow.
Thanks!

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:35 am
by Skyzyx
Personally, I like Notepad for Windows, and BB Edit for Mac OS.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:34 am
by nigma
I use notepad as well, and have never used an HTML editor like HTML-kit and am wondering what some of the advantes to using an editor are?
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:42 am
by patrikG
Without wanting to launch a discussion about pros and cons of editors, I do not expect the casual non-geek who wants to quickly create one or two HTML-pages to have to type in every little thing.
Especially not when I am teaching them...
I assumed I was clear in my original question.

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:36 pm
by McGruff
I use Edit Plus - and occasionally Dreamweaver. Making use of the cliptext feature in EditPlus would pretty much remove any advantages a heavyweight like Dreamweaver has for quick form generation etc.
EditPlus isn't strictly freeware though...
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:21 pm
by Derezo
Personally, I use SciTE. Scintilla Text Editor.
It's like a programmers notepad.
Supports a huge number of languages - PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Java, JavaScript, and about 20 or 30 others.
You can get it here:
http://www.scintilla.org
[edit: and yes, it's open source
but are you looking for a page editor? (ie. drag and drop)
or an html editor? It sounds like you're looking for an html editor, but some page editors were mentioned

]
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:07 pm
by phice
Link to what's somewhat related to your question.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:38 pm
by Vincent Puglia
Hi,
I use cuteHTML ver 1.0 (
http://www.globalscape.com ) -- there is a newer version, but I never bothered upgrading, though I probably should. HTML tags and attributes appear in a dropdown. You can run the code from the editor, set defaults for a new page (meta tags, script tags, html tags, etc.), etc., etc.
Best of all it comes with line numbers and color coding.
Vinny
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:03 pm
by Unipus
nigma, the biggest advantage is code formatting (by color, indent, etc.) that makes your pages much easier to scan and comprehend at a glance.
Other terribly useful features include tag autocomplete (you type 'ali' and it knows to finish it as 'align=""', for instance. Another good one is auto-detecting styles from attached CSS documents, and autocomplete on those as well.
Auto-closing tags, etc. etc. Basically, once you've spent a bit of time in a full-featured text editor, working with plain black Courier will be an enormous pain in the ass, and you won't want to go back.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:42 pm
by Method
there are many... i have used codegenie and winsyntax... both of which just parse the code... but that is a great help of course...
i have tried html-kit, just to see what it was like, and didn't care for it...
i am looking for one now that will parse more than one language in a document... but, no luck yet..
Re: Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:56 pm
by m3rajk
patrikG wrote:Does anyone know a good and easy freeware HTML-editor for Windows and/or Mac? There is no need for advanced stuff like server-side languages tag-highlighting, etc. Just a plain, straightforward HTML-editor with possibly some Javascript-options (no must that).
The background is that I'll be giving "Internet Induction" lessons and obviously there will be hands-on experience.
Thanks in advance.
if you don't need it to actually write the code, there's nothing better than
xemacs/
emacs. not only can they use it for html, they can later use it for ANYTHING else they want. it has m$ ports as well as ALL posix complaint and compatable oses... not sure about pre osx mac though