Comments on: 10 HTML Editors for OS X

By: Andy Kuiper - SEO

Andy Kuiper - SEO — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:47:15 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this article — I use Expression Web 3 via VMWare and I’m contemplating whether to go to Expression 4 or move over to DreamWeaver — not looking forward to taking on new learning curves though; time is a factor.

Andy

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:03:35 +0000

“there just isn’t a half-way decent html editor for the Mac.”

You haven´t looked at Coda or Espresso?

By: Jasper Swart

Jasper Swart — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:51:14 +0000

Hi there,

I use BBEdit for over 10 years now every day. It really is the best one.

And the annoyance described above doesn’t really count. BBEdit has a balance-brackets function it will highlite matching brakets. With every further CMD-B it will select the matching parent brackets (if they exist). And what’s more: it also has a balance-tags function: the same thing in html and xml documents.

Regards,
Jasper Swart

By: chris

chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:49:32 +0000

id agree with tom, after dreamweaver theres not much else, ive just switched to a mac and been usin expression web on windows for ages, dont think theres much competition for it on mac unfortunately.

By: HP

HP — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:26:25 +0000

I guess the one advantage DW has over other “professional” editors is integration with the rest of the Adobe Suite. Apologies to the GIMP users out there, but there’s just no substitute for Photoshop. I really don’t see why they added the WYSIWYG editor though, it just slows everything down and their target customer is just going to ignore it anyway. Thanks for you comment!

By: Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:31:32 +0000

The real problem is that, apart from Dreamweaver (overkill and too expensive) there just isn’t a half-way decent html editor for the Mac. Why this is, I don’t know – surely there’s an open source community out there that could hack something up for us? In switching from XP I bought VMFusion simply because my editor of choice, Homesite (which provided the editing engine that underpins Dreamweaver) isn’t available for the Mac – once you’ve used Homesite anything else feels clunky and inadequate and the Mac developers seem to have a special claim on maximum clunkiness. Curious, really, when pretty well everything else for the Mac works so well and so seamlessly.