Editors

5 March 2004

I recently added a site called white space to my news aggregator. Last night I read an entry titled Non-scientific poll: HTML/CSS Editors. When I first found the entry, there were 64 comments. This morning there were 86 comments.

Someone else will do a much better job of this, but I created a checksheet while reading the comments. If a product got mentioned in any of various versions or forms, it got a check. I probably double-counted or missed some, but here’s where things stood as of 86 comments: (Note that the editors are ranked and the number of times I counted each one is shown to the right.

  1. Homesite 23
  2. TopStyle 21
  3. Dreamweaver 18
  4. BBEdit 17
  5. Notepad 9
  6. Textpad 9
  7. Style Master 6
  8. ColdFusion 5
  9. SubEthaEdit 4
  10. UltraEdit 4
  11. skEdit 3
  12. Bluefish 3
  13. Crimson Editor 3
  14. GoLive 3
  15. SciTE 3
  16. FrontPage 3
  17. VIM 2
  18. jEdit 2
  19. Quanta+ 2
  20. EditPlus 2
  21. HTML-Kit 2
  22. Web Minimalist 1
  23. EMACS 1
  24. Nano 1
  25. Mozilla Firefox 1
  26. Kate 1
  27. Code-Genie 1
  28. Screem 1
  29. Kwrite 1
  30. RKedit 1
  31. PageSpinner 1
  32. IntelliJ Idea 1
  33. Eclipse 1
  34. Notetab 1
  35. EmEditor 1
  36. CSSEdit 1

  • * * UPDATE * * * I’ve added links to each of the editors. While owning one or more of these tools won’t make you a web designer any more than owning a stethoscope will make you a doctor, knowing one or more of these tools fluently is a likely key to full employment in the web design and development industry.

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  1. Scrivs    5 March 2004, 16:15    #