Bluefish/Brackets Editor & Web Developer add-on for Firefox/Chrome/Opera

Penguin

New member
Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor for webdevelopers and its free & open source. It is available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.

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Few notable features:
  • Integrate external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, or your own program or script to handle advanced text processing or error detection
  • Integrate external filters of your liking, pipe your document (or just the current selected text) through sort, sed, awk or any custom script
  • Unlimited undo/redo functionality
  • In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation2
  • Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown
Complete list of features in this link, http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html.

One thing I miss in Bluefish is that it does not have native support for git.





Brackets
Brackets is an open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.. Its a software from adobe and its open source(yes you read it right, adobe & open source in the same sentence) released under MIT license. It is available for Linux, MacOS-X and Windows.

Brackets @ Github, https://github.com/adobe/brackets and it has more than 15K stars & 3K forks.

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Web Developer

This is the best tool to check for information, errors, warnings, etc. and has tons & tons of features.


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The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, OS X and Linux.

http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
 

dhunt16

New member
I tried the link to Bluefish and got an error. The link includes the period at the end, remove the period and the link works.

I have a problem with Frontpage ( I own two retail copies) being able to update some newer extensions. I will try bluefish to see if my authoring is less of a hassle. I've never used the newer versions of Frontpage and don't know if the old extensions would work with them.

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Genesis

Administrator
Staff member
I thought FrontPage was done and gone a long time ago? It is no longer supported by Microsoft. You won't find FP extensions supported anywhere as they are considered security risks.