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TextWrangler – Simple text editor for Mac OS X

ravindra — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:34:58 +0000

TextWrangler is a Simple text editor for Mac OS X. it’s a very handy tool for programmers, web designers, developer and others who spend time reading and writing source code because it offer simple general purpose text editor, programmer’s text editor, Unix and server administrator’s tool, Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator etc.

You can use a TextWrangler text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac OS or server, to writing HTML or coding you website. features included flexible “grep” pattern-based search and replace, syntax highlighting for various programming languages, spell check, file comparison and function navigation for C, C++, and Objective-C.

It also includes integration with the UNIX command line via the “edit” tool, built-in support for opening and saving files to remote FTP and SFTP servers, rich plug-in architecture and extensive scripting support using AppleScript, Python, Perl, Shell scripts, and BBEdit’s native Text Factories. Like any other Mac editors, TextWrangler also open and save files in various encodings, including Unicode, ASCII, Latin-1 and Latin-9.

Download : TextWrangler 3.1

Screem – open source HTML/XML editor for Linux

ravindra — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:36:08 +0000

Screem (Site Creating and Editing Environment) is an free and open source tag based HTML/ XML editor for Linux and UNIX. it mainly focus on to improve productivity when you developed a website, by providing quick access to commonly used elements via toolbar buttons which insert the markup at the current cursor position. While it is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment in mind but it does not specifically require you to be running it, just have the libraries installed.

Screem is a not WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor like Adobe Dreamweaver, it’s a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor which enabling finer control over the HTML being created.

It has some unique features which make him totally different from other editor such as automatically closing all HTML tags, support for Dreamweaver templates, good number of wizards to help with the addition of multimedia content, versatile XML file editing, broken links checking, support for CTags file, CVS support, document structure display, DTD/Doctype Parsing, Inline Tagging, Link Fixing, Page previewing, Publishing with Sitecopy, Tag trees, Task management and many more….

Download : Screem editor

GPHPEdit – Open source PHP editor for Gnome

ravindra — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:32:04 +0000

GPHPEdit is an open source UTF-8 compatible PHP editor for Gnome desktop environment built with using Scintilla. it’s specially designed to edit PHP files and other supporting files like HTML/CSS and also support for drop-down function lists, hints showing parameters, and syntax highlighting.

The user interface of gPHPedit is very similar to gedit interface with the difference that it is designed for PHP and HTML text editing. it’s an free and open source project released under GNU General Public License.

Features of GPHPEdit

Syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, CSS and SQL.
support for Coding Assistance like dropdown function lists, function parameter popups, class/function browser etc..
Support for Syntax checking and navigating code like Lint Checking, Incremental Search, Go to Line functionality
Provide Integrated PHP help like Context Sensitive, Hyperlinked, Fast startup etc..

Download : gphpedit

jHtmlArea – WYSIWYG HTML Editor for jQuery

ravindra — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:42:43 +0000

jHtmlArea is a simple, lightweight, extensible WYSIWYG HTML Editor for jQuery that allow you to transform any Text Area DOM Elements into WYSIWYG HTML Editor.

It’s an lightweight jQuery plugin that consumes less than 9Kb of total bandwidth when minified and gzipped, with CSS and Images it’s almost consume total of 25.9kb and also a tested with following browsers on both the mac and pc: Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox 3/3.5, Safari 4 etc..

Download : jHtmlArea-0.7.0

Loki – free Semantic WYSIWYG XHTML editor

ravindra — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:42:06 +0000

if you looking for free Semantic and standards focused XHTML editor for editing your semantic websites then this editor will really helpful for you. Loki is a free Semantic and standards focused in-browser WYSIWYG editor for semantic HTML. it will transform any textarea entry into a WYSIWYG XHTML editor.

it is totally different from other open source browser-based WYSIWYG editors. it mainly focus on web standards compliance and in its encouragement of semantic markup.

Features of Loki

Semantic XHTML output
No deprecated elements
Uses RSS to integrate with your content management system or blog software
Modular JavaScript enables extensibility
Support for Gecko-based browsers (Firefox) and Internet Explorer
Free and open source project released under GNU Lesser General Public License.

Download : loki-2.0.4.tar.bz2
Demo : Loki Editor Demo

CLEditor – Extensible jQuery WYSIWYG HTML Editor

ravindra — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:30:47 +0000

CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which allow you to easily add lightweight, full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor to any web site.

It’s an lightweight jQuery plugin that consumes less than 9Kb of total bandwidth when minified and gzipped and also a tested with following browsers on both the mac and pc: IE 6.0+, FF 1.5+, Safari 4+, Chrome 5+ and Opera 10+. All testing is done using jQuery 1.4.2. it provide all standard text formatting features found in other WYSIWYG editors and also contains rich drop downs for font name, size, style, text color and highlight color. it allow you to insert images, hyperlinks and horizontal rules.

it has rich plugin development environment, where developer can customize the user interface like adding/removing/updating controls, enable/disable the use of CSS and much more.

Download : cleditor
Demo : CLEditor Demo

SynchroEdit – Browser-based Collaborative real-time text editor

ravindra — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:05:37 +0000

SynchroEdit is a browser based open source text editor that allow multiple users to edit a single web-based text document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version. To clarify the multiuser experience, the editor clearly depicts every user’s changes in a specific color and also marks where each user is currently editing with a colored flag listing the user’s name.

The editor is fully WYSIWYG enabled and user can dynamically displaying bolds, italics, underlines, strikethroughs, with various justifications, indents and listing styles as an author inputs them. it also support a simple, text-only editor for more basic documents. If you’ve ever used SubEthaEdit on Mac OS X, or MoonEdit for Windows or Linux, or the cross-platform Gobby editor, then SynchroEdit user interface is easy for you.

Features of SynchroEdit

Collaborative Editing : Two or more people can edit a same document at exactly the same time, fine-tuning specific wordings and phrases. If two person edit the same line, the second person gets a warning that his edits are blocked for a few seconds
Teleconferencing Notes : Members of a teleconference can write about their call, correcting or expanding upon notes made by other call members, thus supporting a true backchannel to a live conference call.
Wiki Editing : Editors can edit popular or heavily edited Wiki pages at the same time, instead of having to wait for their colleagues to complete their work.
Pair/XP Programming, Agile Development : Two or more programmers or web developers can write code at the same time.
Teaching Aids : Teachers can provide dynamic syllabi and lecture notes, and students can take shared class notes together.
Documentation writing : Authors with a variety of expertise can come together to write a coherent document on a specific topic. This overview of SynchroEdit was originally written in SynchroEdit by multiple people.
Conferences : SynchroEdit can be (and is) used in conjunction with conferences, with sessions set up corresponding to the sessions in the conference itself.
Project licensed under open source (LGPL and MPL)
Each person’s text is color coded

Download : SynchroEdit

Aloha Editor – Advanced browser based HTML5 Editor with a Floating Menu

ravindra — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:09:39 +0000

Aloha Editor is an open source browser based HTML 5 editor that give whole new concept to edit the web pages online. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented functionalities.

it is specially designed to be the easiest to use, the fastest in editing and the best in its functions. no need to reload pages or preview pages for editing, just click and edit. this is all you need. Other editors need to reload the website or come with a popup. Both actions are time consuming.

It’s floating menu offers you the right options matching your editing context. The menu floats to the paragraph, table or content element you are editing. Thus the menu is as near as it can be. Aloha Editor is designed not to show more than 15 icons at the same time in floating menu. This offers you a clear overview about the options at hand. You only see those icons which are useful to you determined by your selection or cursor position. Still you may have other options available just one mouse click away.

It is ready to use when your website is loaded. Even if you need 20 or 100 input areas, Aloha Editor is loaded only once. Most of the other Editors use iframes and need to reload the JavaScript and CSS for each instance. Aloha Editor does not need iframes. This results in saving up to 80% of the loading time compared to other editors.

Features of Aloha Editor

The floating menu – A brand new lightweight context menu
No need to reload or preview pages or come with popup for editing.
Tables for the web
Editing and formatting text without Markup
Save 25% of working time
improve 80% loading speedup for multiple instances
WYSIWYG editor for Dynamic content
HTML5 contenteditable – All major browsers support contenteditable. But they provide no interface or even break the HTML source code. Contenteditable is the heart of Aloha Editor and makes it to worlds most advanced Editor.

Download : Aloha Editor – The HTML5 Editor

Cute Editor – WYSIWYG browser-based XHTML/HTML Editor for ASP.NET

ravindra — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:35:03 +0000

Cute Editor for ASP.NET is a browser based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Online HTML Editor for ASP.NET. It allow ASP.NET developers to replace any standard Textarea into a intuitive Word-like WYSIWYG html editor.

This rich editing tool empowers end users with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface for creating and publishing web content easily and safely without relying on any client-side components or controls. Thousands of companies have integrated Cute Editor into there content management systems, e-learning, discussion forums, Web e-mail, and other applications. Plus, Cute Editor also allows developers to easily customize and extend the editor.

Features of Cute Editor

A cross-browser, cross-platform WYSIWYG online HTML editor : Cute editor compatible with all major browsers available in the market: IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Chrome, Mozilla 1.3+, Opera 9.0+, Netscape 7+ and Safari (1.3+). This includes Macintosh and Linux.
Compliant with the web standards, no deprecated tags such as anymore : Cute Editor will help you build sites that adhere to the latest HTML standards, generates clean HTML/XHTML code with no deprecated tags.
Insert clean HTML from Microsoft Word : When text is pasted from Microsoft Word a lot of unnecessary word specific markup is carried across. This can result in web pages that take an unnecessarily long time to download. The Paste from Word button solves this by removing word markup before pasting the text into your page.
Output HTML or well-formed XHTML : Cute Editor supports output well-formed XHTML. Your choice of XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 output.
Lightweight, clean and extremely Fast loading editor : Numerous optimization methods has been applied. It’s clean, compact, extremely fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient.
Advanced File uploader : Cute editor come with hi-performance ASP.NET upload component – Ajax uploader . Ajax Uploader allows you to select and upload multiple files at once. It also supports client side validation of the file size/type before uploading.
Store images in a Database : it allow you to use a Sql Server database or access database as the file storage.
Image insertion and automatic upload : Built in thumbnail generator. Thumbnail images are dynamically created; Supports upload new images. Paging – specify how many images. Support auto resize images.
Apply security to control user access to resources : Cute Editor allows developers to assign a pre-defined set of permissions by group or individual. This prevents a normal user to access the administration functionality.
RTF to HTML and HTML to RTF : With Cute Editor you can easily convert an HTML document into an RTF file and RTF file into HTML or XHTML document.
Easy to create PDF files : Cute Editor also allows you dynamically create Adobe PDF documents from ASP.NET.
Support for unlimited Undo and redo features
Multilingual , Easy localization through XML : All labels, buttons, tooltips and messages are located in external XML files, so that the language of the editor can be switched with a single property. You can also create a new language in a matter of minutes.
Full-Screen editing support : It does not open a new window, instead it will resize to fit the browser screen. Edit in full screen mode, maximizing your available space and improve your productivity.
No slow Java or ActiveX components : 100% DHTML, JavaScript ASP.Net code. There are no slow Java or ActiveX components to worry about and everything is handled in the browser!
Easy implementation : Only a couple lines of code , you don’t need to be an expert to implement in your project. It allows you to add an online HTML editing functionality that works with standard HTML form.
Easy to use API to hide buttons and tabs : It allows developers to set the image directory, set the controls width, disable image uploading and deleting, restrict access to the source/preview tabs, hide buttons and lists that you don’t want your clients to see or access.
CSS based Skinning : Cute editor is a highly customizable through several built in themes that are ready to use. Developers can completely change the appearance of the toolbar and the dialogs by simply modifying the supplied classes and images.
Online image editor : With online image editor, you can now edit image file with no image editing software to download or install! Easy drag and drop familiar interface. Resize, change dimensions, scale, crop, add text, optimize, rotate, flip, mirror and add watermark.

Download : Cute Editor for .NET version 6.6

FreeTextBox – free HTML Editor for ASP.NET

ravindra — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:58:01 +0000

FreeTextBox is a Free, customizable HTML editor for ASP.NET applications that allow users to do basic HTML editing in a WYSIWYG environment with a look and feel similar to Microsoft Office products. With FreeTextBox, Developer can add text-editing functionality to ASP.NET Web pages and then edit text and click on buttons to format their text, just like in a text editor.

The editor is written in C# and provide many options for customization. It can be easily validated using standard ASP.NET validators. Some time developer may encounter problems when developer using it in languages other than C# because the code is not marked CLS compliant. It is compatible with internet explore, Firefox and Mozilla on all platforms and also used in major Open Source projects as well as excellent packages like Smarter Mail.

MSHTML is reputed to make certain changes to HTML code, such as changing relative URLs to absolute. Developers can prevent this by using the controls properties.

features of FreeTextBox

Multi-platform supported HTML Editor for ASP.NET applications
Built-in Image Gallery
Internal Resources
Complete JavaScript API
Office 2003, XP, 200, Mac buttons
Style Sheet Support
Style editor
Down-level support
Server-side XHTML Conversion

Download : FreeTextBox 4.0 (beta1) (zip)
Demo : FreeTextBox Demo