USER:DYNV CUSTOM COMPARISON OF NON-PROPRIETARY HTML 5 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
Aptana Studio	3.6.0 (August 1)	2014	Aptana	GPL	[2]
Bluefish	2.2.9 (June 16)	2016	Bluefish	GPL	[3]
BlueGriffon	1.8 (October 13)	2015	Disruptive Innovations	MPL 1.1/ GPL 2.0/ LGPL 2.1	[4] [5]
Brackets	Release 1.5 (October 10)	2015	Adobe	MIT License	[6]
LibreOffice	5.0.4 (December)	2015	The Document Foundation	Mozilla Public License/ Apache License 2.0/others	[7]
Maqetta	Preview 5 (March 28)	2012	IBM	BSD or AFL	[8]
Nvu (Discontinued)	1.0 (June 28)	2005	Linspire / Daniel Glazman	MPL 1.1/ GPL 2.0/ LGPL 2.1	[9]
openElement	1.44 (January 21)	2014	openElement	Apache License 2.0	[10]
OpenOffice.org	4.1.1 (August)	2014	Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems)	Mozilla Public License/ Apache License 2.0/others	[11]
TextMate	2.0 Preview (August 12)	2012	Macromates	GPL	[12]
Editor	Version	Year	Creator	Software license	Website

Operating system support

Editor	Windows	OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix	iOS	Android
Aptana	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
LibreOffice	Yes	Yes	Yes	source only	source only	No	No
Maqetta	Yes	Yes	Cloud^[1]	Cloud^[1]	No	No	No
Nvu ^[2]	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
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
Aptana	No	Yes	?	Yes (via plugins)	Yes	No	Some (i.e. Snippets)	?	Yes	?
Bluefish	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
BlueGriffon	Yes	No (add-on)^[3]	No	?	No	Yes	Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)^[4]	No	Yes	?
Brackets	"Live Preview" in-browser	Yes (via extension)	No	Yes	No	Yes (via extension)	Yes (via extension)	No	Yes	?
LibreOffice	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
Maqetta	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	?
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
Aptana	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Bluefish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
BlueGriffon	Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)^[5]	?	?	?	?	Yes	Yes (via commercial proprietary add-on)^[6]	?	?	?	?
Brackets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	?
LibreOffice	Yes	Yes	Yes (optional)	Yes (and Python)	Yes (that's how export works)	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
Maqetta	Yes	?	No	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	?	?	?	?
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
Aptana	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Bluefish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[7]
BlueGriffon	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Brackets	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
LibreOffice	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
Maqetta	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
openElement	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	Yes
OpenOffice.org	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	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
Aptana	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Depends
Bluefish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
BlueGriffon	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Brackets	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes (via extension)^[8]
Maqetta	?	?	?	?	?
Nvu	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
openElement	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
OpenOffice.org	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Editor	JPEG	GIF	PNG	TIFF	SVG

Early HTML comparisons

The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.

Comparison of early HTML editors
Program	Author	Version	System	HTML Compliant	Display	Forms	Tables	Integrated Browser	Cost
asWedit	Andrzej Stochniol	1.1	Unix	HTML 3	source	Yes	Yes	No	freeware
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
Live Markup	MediaTech	16b4a	Windows	HTML 2	WYSIWYG	No	No	No	commercial
Symposia	GRIF	0.8	Unix	HTML 2	WYSIWYG	Yes	Yes	Yes	beta
Tkhtml	Liem Bahenmann	2.3	Unix	No	source	Yes	No	No	freeware
Phoenix	University of Chicago	0.1.7	Unix	No	WYSIWYG	No	No	Yes	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
Webtor	Jochen Schales	.91prealpha2	Macintosh	HTML2	WYSIWYG	No	No	No	freeware

References

^ ^a ^b [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.
^ Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client
^ Bluegriffon's commercial proprietary One click templates add-on
^ 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
^ [1]

Mintert, Stefan (1995). "WWW-Dokumente komfortabel erstellen: Weberknechte" [Create WWW documents comfortably]. iX (in German). 8: 54–66.

* HTML editors

[cloud-1] [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maquetta is running in the cloud.]

[2] Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.

[3] Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client

[4] Bluegriffon's commercial proprietary One click templates add-on

[5] ttp://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/CssEditor BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary CSS editor add-on

[6] ttp://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/MathML BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary MathML add-on

[7] External tools such as weblint and tidy are integrated

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General information

Operating system support

Editor features

Web technology support

HTML/XHTML specification support

Image format support

Early HTML comparisons

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General information

Operating system support

Editor features

Web technology support

HTML/XHTML specification support

Image format support

Early HTML comparisons

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