Web Development tools: review of HTML Pad 2008 (v. 9.41)
Keywords : HTML, editor, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, WML, XML, Perl, text, editor, web, development, developer, website, design, designer.
Summary: HTMLPad is an all-in-one (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript and and server side script editor for the Windows OS. It incorporates a large number of integrated tools which allow web developers to validate, reuse, navigate and format their code.
Main Features:
- Fully customizable text editor
- Syntax highlighting (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, WML, XML, Perl)
- Built-in CSS editor
- Built-in JavaScript editor
- Code Auto Complete: HTML tags, CSS
- Code Inspector for HTML tags and CSS
- Preview mode for HTML and CSS
- Code generators and helpers
- Matching and missing HTML tag highlighting
- Personal Code Library (collects frequently used pieces of code so you can reuse them later and save time) .
- Project management and publishing to FTP .
- Search and Replace with support Regular Expression Support
- Find and Replace in files
- Code collapse
- Spell Checker
- Various validation tools (W3C HTML validation, HTML Tidy, and integration of optional CSE HTML validator developed by AI Internet Solutions1)
- Web Standards compliant
1 Please visit AI Internet Solutions website for more details. Trial version available.
We like:
- Lots of features for the money
- Light, fast and flexible
- Stable
Suggestions for improvement:
- Doesn't currently have a "close me" and "close all but me" context option for tabs like Notepad++
- Doesn't currently offer code beautifier for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP such as in Dreamweaver.
Conclusion:
A light, fast and very flexible text editor. Lots of features.
Publisher: Blumentals Software
OS: Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista
Price: visit Blumentals software website. 30-use free trial version of the HTMLPad 2008, is also available.
Similar products/ other OS: Notepad++ (Open Source, Free, Windows), Bluefish (Open Source, Free, Linux), BBEdit (Mac OS X)...
Comparison of text editors (wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors (wikipedia)
Cross-platform text editors (wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Cross-platform_text_editors
