HTML5 is one of the most popular language amongst developers and designers as it provides numerous functionality and assists developers to easily design web applications.
There are many reason behind HTML5 popularity such as modern browser support (like Firefox 6, Google Chrome, IE9 etc.), structure specific tags, visual elements like rounded corners are now built in, drag and drop interactive, new video, audio and canvas elements, as well as the integration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) content (that replaces the uses of generic
HTML5 editor can be considered as tool or software which helps developers to design interactive html pages or even websites. Though such websites or web pages can build by any editors available over Internet, but HTML editors offer more functionality and work with technologies like CSS, XML and JavaScript.
We have gathered some of the best HTML5 editors which will enable designers and developers within their given workflow. We hope they will fulfill your needs.
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Mercury Editor
Mercury is a full featured HTML5 editor, built on the top of the HTML5 Content Editable features, it natively supports all HTML5 elements syntax and JavaScript APIs. It supports full HTML, simple, markdown, snippet and image regions. It supports previewing the edited content and inserting links, images, videos or tables. File uploads can be accomplished with drag ‘n’ drop.
Rendra : Online HTML5 Editor
Rendera is an online HTML5 editor which renders a realtime preview of your current work also transform your current work into CSS, Rendera supports HAML and SASS. Rendera makes learning HTML5 and CSS3 easy and it is built with CoffeeScript and Sinatra.
Maqetta
Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads. Maqetta is available under a commercial-friendly open source license. You can download the source code and install it on your own server, customize the code to fit your needs and/or contribute improvements to the open source project.
Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio 3 is an open source development tool for the developers; it enables developer to test their web applications using single environment. Aptana supports latest browser technologies specs such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python. It includes number of features such as GIF integration, HTML,CSS and JavaScript Code assists, integrated debugger, deployment wizard and IDE Customization.
Aloha Editor
Aloha Editor is a rich text editor developed in JavaScript and is a browser based framework. Aloha can be embedded within a content management system (CMS) and other frameworks used for blogs and web development in general. Aloha Editor is designed to make editing process faster. Aloha makes the work 25% faster by reducing the few time consuming steps such as typing and formatting. Aloha Editor is ready to use when website is loaded, even if users need 20 or 100 inputs areas Aloha Editor only loaded once.
Blue Griffon
BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it’s a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards. BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards
