Macintosh HTML Editors
This is a listing of all Macintosh HTML editing tools known to me
(except for the ones you've emailed me about, that I haven't gotten
around to including in the list yet).
Would you like to make a
contribution?
Alpha
- Author: Pete Keleher
- Availability: Shareware, $30
- Current version: 6.5
- Homepage:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/alpha.html
- Description:
A powerful text editor with 20 different modes, one for each
programming language in the universe, including an HTML mode. The
HTML mode has many tools for fast and easy editing of HTML and
JavaScript. Every HTML element has its own keybinding so you won't be
slowed down by unnecessary use of the menus. There are also functions
for maintaining WWW sites, like link checking and the possibility to
dynamically include a document in many other documents.
Most recent information about HTML mode, and sometimes
more recent versions than are distributed with Alpha, may be found at
its author's (Johan Linde) own home page:
http://bach.theophys.kth.se/~jl/Alpha.html
ANT_HTML
- Author: Jill Swift
- Availability: Shareware
- Current version: 3.0
- Homepage:
http://telacommunications.com/ant/
- Description:
WYSIWYG Conversion of documents both to and from HTML for beginners and
advanced HTML authors. Works in Word 6.0 and above (all platforms and in
International versions of Word). Includes a user-customizable toolbar,
automatic table conversion and a special utility for creating HTML forms.
AOLPress
Arachnid
Backstage
- Author: iband, inc.
- Availability: Commercial, 30 day free trial available
- Current version: ?
- Homepage:
http://www.iband.com/sotware/backstage/designer/index.html
- Description:
Create web pages in an intuitive point and click authoring environment.
WYSIWYG. Point and click link creation. Automatic forms creation.
Templates.
BBEdit
- Author: Bare Bones Software
- Availability: Commercial, $119 (free demo and various
discounts available)
- Current version: 3.5.2
- Homepage:
http://www.barebones.com/bbedit.html
- Description:
Everyone's favorite Mac text editor has plenty of capability for
messing about with HTML. Includes HTML-aware spell checker, HTML
syntax and link checking, and cleanup of PageMill-generated HTML, as
well as the usual array of tools to automate markup. Bare Bones's
site also has information about other tools that help in dealing with
HTML using BBEdit.
BBEdit HTML extensions
- Author: Carles Bellver
- Availability: Free
- Current version: release 13
- Homepage:
http://www.barebones.com/html.html
- Description:
Extensions to the freeware/shareware
editor BBEdit that allow for easy insertion of markup.
Bob's HTML Editor
- Author: Bob Matsuoka
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 2.2.1
- Homepage: ?
- Description:
Plain text editor that simplifies and speeds the process of
creating HTML files. Supports most of HTML 2.0, except forms, promised
in future. Commands accessible via icons, menus, and palette.
URLs and IMGs can be stored and pasted, and relative paths
automatically generated. Does not enforce valid HTML syntax.
Available at your favorite Info-Mac mirror site as
/info-mac/text/html/bhe-221.hqx.
CRACKERJACK
- Author: Jill Swift
- Availability: Shareware
- Current version: 1.0
- Homepage:
http://telacommunications.com/crackerjackt/
- Description:
CRACKERJACK is customizable HTML editor designed for those who prefer a
non-WYSIWYG environment, but who want automated features such as automatic
formatting of lengthy lists, automatic formatting of HTML form entries and
automatic table conversion. Works in Word 6.0 and above (all platforms and
in International versions of Word).
Easy HTML
- Author: Mike Gebis, NCSA
- Availability: Free
- Current version:
- Homepage:
http://ox.ncsa.uiuc.edu/easyhtml/easy.html
- Description:
A World Wide Web forms-based interactive
editor for HTML files. Guides the user through the process of
creating and editing an HTML document via a Web browser. Allows
continual previewing of the document in progress and saving of the
finished product to the user's local disk.
FrontPage
- Author: Microsoft
- Availability: Commercial, $695?
- Current version: 1.0
- Homepage:
http://www.microsoft.com/msoffice/frontpage/default.htm
- Description:
A visual client/server web publishing environment. Editor provides
WYSIWYG editing, built-in spell checking, easy creation of links and
clickable images, forms creation, image type conversion, and more.
The editor is only one small component of this environment.
Free 30-day evaluation copy available at the web site. (Is this
still true?)
- Author: NaviSoft
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.2b
- Homepage:
http://www.tools.gnn.com/press/index.html
- Description:
WYSIWYG. HTML 3.0 and Netscape extensions. Tables, forms, body
attributes. Source editing. Link checking. Customizable toolbar.
SOCKS support. Online docs, help, templates, upgrades.
golive
- Author: ?
- Availability: ?
- Current version: ?
- Homepage:
http://www.golive.com/
- Description:
I've never been able to connect to their site...
GT_HTML
- Author: Jeffrey Grover, John H. Davis III, Bob Johnston
- Availability: Freeware
- Current version: 6.0d
- Homepage:
http://www.gatech.edu/word_html/
- Description:
Microsoft Word for Windows or Macintosh
document template for HTML documents.
High Tea
- Author: Dr. R. (Stan) Stanier
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.9
- Homepage: ?
- Description:
High Tea is (hopefully) a simple to use HTML editor that incorporates
many of the latest HTML (& Netscape) extensions as well as most of the
basic HTML tags that are currently in use.
Home Page
- Author: Claris
- Availability: Free
- Current version: beta
- Homepage:
http://www.claris.com/products/clarispage/enquirer/Docs/download.html
- Description:
WYSIWYG and plain text modes. "Unparalleled ease of use." Custom
table support. Frame builder. Page templates. Import from other
editors. Still in beta, which is available free and unsupported;
presumably it will be commercial eventually.
HomeMaker
- Author:
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.0b8
- Homepage: ?
- Description:
HyperCard stack that prompts the user to fill in information
appropriate for a personal home page. Automatically adds tags to
the information and creates the HTML text file. Includes some
Netscape enhancements. Available on your favorite Info-Mac archive
as /info-mac/text/html/home-maker-10b8-hc.hqx.
HoTMetaL
- Author: SoftQuad, Inc.
- Availability: Commercial, $195
- Current version: 1.0+
- Homepage:
http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hm-ftp.htm
- Description:
Unsupported free version of HoTMetaL PRO.
Includes plenty of features -- document templates, forms support,
rules checking, cleanup of existing documents with bad markup.
HoTMetaL PRO
- Author: SoftQuad, Inc.
- Availability: Commercial, $195
- Current version: 2.0
- Homepage:
http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hmp-org.htm
- Description:
Import from many different formats. Supports most Netscape and HTML 3
extensions. Faster and smaller than version 1.0. Improved user
interface. Enhanced URL support. Upgrade for $59.
HTML Editor
HTML Grinder
HTML-Hypereditor
- Author: Lars.Olof Albertson, Information Office, Lund University,
Sweden
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.1
- Homepage:
http://www.lu.se/info/Editor/HTML-HyperEditor.html
- Description:
Description: Editor easy to work with as most of the commands are in
palettes. Automatic formatting of RTF files. Tables. No form
generator. FTP for saving files both on local Mac and unix server.
Translates to ISO Latin by saving. Imported HTML files are translated
to Mac characters. Global replace in all files in selected folder.
HTML Pro
- Author: Niklas Frykholm
- Availability: Shareware, $5 (includes other software)
- Current version: 1.08
- Homepage:
http://www.ts.umu.se/~r2d2/
- Description:
WYSIWYG editor, nice interface. Does not
support forms, tables, or Netscape enhancements. No Undo.
HTML SuperText
HTML Web Weaver
HTML.edit
- Author: Murray Altheim
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.7
- Homepage:
http://www.metrics.nttc.edu/tools/htmledit/HTMLEdit.html
- Description:
Supports standard HTML 2.0, plus forms and tables. HTML.edit is a
complete site editor, having many time-saving features for HTML coding
and document management, including customizable elements,
bidirectional text and entity translation tables, global and
selection-only replacement, document preview and browsing (via URL,
BASE, or hotlist).
htmlSketcher
- Author: Michael Korican
- Availability: Shareware, $5
- Current version: 1.1
- Homepage: ?
- Description:
A HyperCard HTML editor. From the Info-Mac digest blurb:
"Using HyperCard, htmlSketcher helps you visualize the presentation
of information one screen at a time. One click of a button then
automatically produces rudimentary html pages, ready for further
mark-up. No knowledge of html coding is required!" Info-Mac
archive path is /info-mac/text/html/html-sketche-11-hc.hqx.
HTMLTool
- Author: Tom Kimpton
- Availability: Free?
- Current version:
- Homepage: ?
- Description:
A menu tool for the MPW editor; adds HTML and FORMS menus with
commands for performing common HTML formatting operations. E.g.,
cmd-opt-P puts <P></P> around the selected text.
Available on your favorite Info-Mac archive as
/info-mac/text/html/html-tool.hqx.
Jon's HTML Editor
Myrmidon
- Author: Terry Morse Software
- Availability: $49.95 street price, demo available
- Current version: 1.1
- Homepage:
http://www.terrymorse.com/
- Description:
Myrmidon provides HTML conversion for any application that prints,
while retaining the formatting of the original document. Converts
headings, lists, paragraphs, images, non-ASCII characters, and tables.
NaviPress
- Author: NaviSoft
- Description:
Renamed GNNpress.
PageMill
- Author: Adobe
- Availability: Commercial, $99
- Current version: 1.0.2
- Homepage:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html
- Description:
WYSIWYG page editing, cut and paste links, integrated preview browser,
integrated image handling and forms creation, attribute inspector,
drag and drop editing.
PageSpinner
- Author: Optima System
- Availability: Shareware?
- Current version: 1.2b4
- Homepage:
http://www.algonet.se/~optima/pagespinner.html
- Description:
Supports HTML 2.0, most of 3.2, plus Netscape extensions. Useful
for both beginner and advanced author. Quick access to often used
formatting. Supports interactive help with AppleGuide. HTML
assistant to help you compose your own web pages. [Description
copied from www.shareware.com. Does anyone know a home page for
PageSpinner itself?]
Simple HTML Editor (S H E)
Tapestry
- Author: Concept 1
- Availability: Commercial, $79; student $49; free demo
- Current version: 2.0
- Homepage:
http://www.concept1.com/
- Description:
Drag and drop to create links, images, backgrounds, movies. Multiple
undo. Browser preview.
vi
- Author: Bill Joy
- Availability: Free
- Current version: ?
- Homepage:
- Description:
God's gift to text editing. I've seen a nice-looking collection
of HTML macros for vi somewhere. I just need to find them again...
Can anyone give me a URL?
Web Warrior
- Author: Timothy Paustian and John Dunning
- Availability: Free
- Current version: 1.0b23
- Homepage:
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/webwarriortop/
- Description:
Supports most HTML tags including forms and tables. Drag-and-drop
creation of links to other documents and images. Extensive
command-key equivalents for folks who like to keep their
fingers on the keyboard. Does not enforce HTML structure.
Webtor
WordPerfect
- Author: Miracle Software
- Availability: Commercial, $89
- Current version: 2.0
- Homepage:
http://www.miracleinc.com/Commercial/W4/index.html
- Description:
Supports Netscape frames. Builtin table builder, import feature.
Many HTML 3.0 tags. Web browser preview (choice of several browsers).
Easy to use link-creation interface. Background color chooser.
Integration with CGI/forms creation. Converts Mac styled text
directly to HTML. Floating palettes for frequently-used tags.
Many more features.
