Gedit is a GNOME text editor for Linux and UNIX with binaries for Windows and Macintosh. It offers good functionality for a text editor, but not all of the features you might want for a fully robust web page editor. This editor was recommended to me by About.com Web Design/HTML site readers.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: September 26, 2011.
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gEdit Version: 2.30.2
Score: 112.5
Percent: 33%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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gEdit Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows, Macintosh, Linux or UNIX
Features:
- Text editor
- Color coding
- FTP or Site manager
- Search and replace
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Special character tools
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Customizable or extendable
- No limitation (beyond a possible time limit) on sites/pages built with the free trial
- Does not require subscription
- Spell check and snippets can be added with plugins
What's Missing from gEdit
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Wireless device preview
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Wireless 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
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Extended search and replace (across multiple 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
- Can edit JavaScript
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- Additional CSS assistance
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- 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
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
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