Top 25 WYSIWYG editors for Smashing Magazine desktops (partial translation)
When it comes to code editors, it's damn hard to get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionality that different editors can offer. In the end, however, at least one is required, so it is very important to know which editor best suits your personal needs.
WYSIWYG editors are often criticized by supporters of "manual" code creation for being bloated, dirty, and not compatible with standards, the source code that these editors produce. However, WYSIWYG editors have become much better lately. Some of them are even valid and elegant code.
Sometimes you need to provide your customers with the simplest tools to edit or update their websites. And this is exactly where WYSIWYG editors are suitable.
We think it would be wrong to recommend some of the “best” editors to you, because the choice always depends on your needs, main goals, skills and experience. Therefore, in this article we tried to give you an overview of different, useful and not very WYSIWYG editors.
We hope you find some editors that you’ve never heard of before .. Or maybe you’ll find some features that you’ll miss in the current editor or risk experimenting with some promising options to improve your workflow. In addition, you can learn what editors can use and what tools you should not use.
What does WYSIWYG mean?
In such editors, you can not directly change the source code of your documents, but its presentation, which (if possible) will be published in the final document. Thus, instead of writing blocks of code manually (as you would, for example, do this in Word or LaTeX), you control the design using components using the editor window. This means that you see something very similar to the final result, although the document or image is still being created.
Note: this article contains reviews only desktop-oriented WYSIWYG editors that run on Windows, Linux or Mac. It does not provide an overview of WYSIWIG editors in JavaScript, but you can find an extensive overview of such editors here or here.
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Adobe Dreamweaver (Win / Mac)
Amaya (Win / Mac / Linux)
RapidWeaver (Mac)
Adobe Contribute
Adobe Golive (Win / Mac)
Microsoft Expression (Win)
NVU (Win / Mac / Linux)
KompoZer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Namo WebEditor 2006 (Win)
Evrsoft First Page 2006 (Win)
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Win)
Netobjects fusion
Quanta Plus (Linux)
Freeway (Mac)
SeaMonkey Composer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Create (Mac)
WYSIWYG Web Builder
Nonprofessional, for beginners or small companies
iWeb (Mac)
Sandvox (Mac)
Sitegrinder (Win / Mac)
Studioline Web3 (Win)
Bluevoda (Advertising)
Website X5 (Win)
oXygen (Win / Linux / Mac)
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed
PS
Translation will be tomorrow.
WYSIWYG editors are often criticized by supporters of "manual" code creation for being bloated, dirty, and not compatible with standards, the source code that these editors produce. However, WYSIWYG editors have become much better lately. Some of them are even valid and elegant code.
Sometimes you need to provide your customers with the simplest tools to edit or update their websites. And this is exactly where WYSIWYG editors are suitable.
We think it would be wrong to recommend some of the “best” editors to you, because the choice always depends on your needs, main goals, skills and experience. Therefore, in this article we tried to give you an overview of different, useful and not very WYSIWYG editors.
We hope you find some editors that you’ve never heard of before .. Or maybe you’ll find some features that you’ll miss in the current editor or risk experimenting with some promising options to improve your workflow. In addition, you can learn what editors can use and what tools you should not use.
What does WYSIWYG mean?
In such editors, you can not directly change the source code of your documents, but its presentation, which (if possible) will be published in the final document. Thus, instead of writing blocks of code manually (as you would, for example, do this in Word or LaTeX), you control the design using components using the editor window. This means that you see something very similar to the final result, although the document or image is still being created.
Note: this article contains reviews only desktop-oriented WYSIWYG editors that run on Windows, Linux or Mac. It does not provide an overview of WYSIWIG editors in JavaScript, but you can find an extensive overview of such editors here or here.
')
Adobe Dreamweaver (Win / Mac)
Amaya (Win / Mac / Linux)
RapidWeaver (Mac)
Adobe Contribute
Adobe Golive (Win / Mac)
Microsoft Expression (Win)
NVU (Win / Mac / Linux)
KompoZer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Namo WebEditor 2006 (Win)
Evrsoft First Page 2006 (Win)
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Win)
Netobjects fusion
Quanta Plus (Linux)
Freeway (Mac)
SeaMonkey Composer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Create (Mac)
WYSIWYG Web Builder
Nonprofessional, for beginners or small companies
iWeb (Mac)
Sandvox (Mac)
Sitegrinder (Win / Mac)
Studioline Web3 (Win)
Bluevoda (Advertising)
Website X5 (Win)
oXygen (Win / Linux / Mac)
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed
PS
Translation will be tomorrow.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/24908/
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