About BBEdit
BBEdit is one of the most popular web editors for the Macintosh. It is easy to use and has a lot of great features. It's a text editor, so if you need WYSIWYG it won't work well for you, but if you’re looking for a powerful text HTML editor, you need look no further. And one of the things I like best about BBEdit and Bare Bones software (the makers of BBEdit) is that they have a sense of humor. I agree with their tagline: BBEdit “It doesn’t suck.” Version 10 comes with new pricing making BBEdit much more affordable. Two other new features that seem interesting to me are support for Dropbox and the ability to edit files inside a ZIP file.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 26, 2011.
BBEdit Latest Review
BBEdit Version: 10
Score: 167
Percent: 50%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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BBEdit Technical Details
Operating System(s): Macintosh
BBEdit Features
- Text editor
- HTML validator
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Additional CSS assistance
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Customizable or extendable
- Free trial
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Support for Dropbox to store your application data
- Search and edit inside ZIP files
What’s Missing from BBEdit
- WYSIWYG editor
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Mobile device preview
- Mobile scripts, functions, or links
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Google sitemaps
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Free scripts
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- Ecommerce tools
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Version control
