About Bluefish
Bluefish is a full featured web editor for Linux. And the 2.0 release adds a lot of great new features. There are also native executables for Windows and Macintosh. There is code-sensitive spell check, auto complete of many different languages (HTML, PHP, CSS, etc.), snippets, project management, and auto-save. It is primarily a code editor, not specifically a web editor. This means that it has a lot of flexibility for web developers writing in more than just HTML, but if you’re a designer by nature you might not like it as much.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 26, 2011.
Bluefish Latest Review
Bluefish Version: 2.0.3
Score: 178
Percent: 53%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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Bluefish Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows, Macintosh, and Linux or UNIX
Bluefish Features
- Text editor
- HTML validator
- XML validator
- 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
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Synchronize upload and download directories to maintain a large site on your hard drive
What’s Missing from Bluefish
- WYSIWYG editor
- Accessibility validator
- CSS 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
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- FTP or Site manager
- 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
- 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
- Customizable or extendable
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Full price: Free
