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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of (purportedly) WYSIWYG HTML editors. Please see the individual products' articles for further information, and Comparison of text editors for information on text editors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
General information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.
| Editor | Version | Creator | Cost (USD) | Software license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | 9.3 | W3C, INRIA | Free | W3C |
| Composer | 1.7 | Mozilla Foundation | Free | MPL/GPL/LGPL |
| Dreamweaver | 8 | Adobe (formerly Macromedia) | US $399 | Closed source |
| FrontPage | 2003 | Microsoft | US $199 | Closed source |
| Nvu | 1.0 | Linspire, Inc., Daniel Glazman | Free | MPL/GPL/LGPL |
Operating system support
| Editor | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | source only | source only |
| Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes? | Yes | No? | No? |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Yes | No | No[1] | No | No | No |
| Nvu [2] | Yes | Yes | No? | Yes | Yes | ? |
Editor features
| Editor | Dynamic Web page | FTP Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Composer | No | Yes? | No | No | Yes | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nvu | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Web technology support
| Editor | CSS2 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML Template:Refun | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Composer | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Dreamweaver | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
| FrontPage | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Nvu | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Image format support
| Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | MNG | TIFF | SVG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No |
| Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| FrontPage[3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends | Yes? | Depends | Depends |
| Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- ^ A version for Mac OS was released around 1998, but has since been discontinued.
- ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
- ^ Actual amount of supported formats depend on installed converer. FrontPage uses Microsoft Office converters.
See also
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