About Code Lobster
Code Lobster is an IDE for developing PHP applications and web pages on Windows. It has a lot of support for various coding languages built in. Then, if you need more features, there are plugins to work with jQuery, Drupal, Smarty, WordPress, Joomla, JQuery, and CodeIgniter. These all are an extra cost.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 25, 2011.
Code Lobster Latest Review
Code Lobster Version: 3.9.4
Score: 141
Percent: 42%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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Code Lobster Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows
Code Lobster Features
- Text editor
- Page preview
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Can edit JavaScript
- Additional CSS assistance
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Customizable or extendable
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Plugins for jQuery, Drupal, Joomla, Blogging, Facebook and more.
- Plugins cost extra.
What’s Missing from Code Lobster
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- 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 XHTML documents
- FTP or Site manager
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- 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
- Special character tools
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- 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
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- 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
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