About SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey is the Mozilla project all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes a web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and composer — the web page editor. One of the nice things about using SeaMonkey is that you have the browser built-in already so testing is a breeze. Plus it's a free WYSIWYG editor with an embedded FTP to publish your web pages. I don't like that it doesn't have HTML5 or CSS3 support, and you can't change the doctype, even for new pages. But it is a free WYSIWYG editor, which there aren't many of.
Target Market(s): Newcomers to Web Design or Small Business Owners
Review last updated: October 12, 2011.
SeaMonkey Latest Review
SeaMonkey Version: 2.4.1
Score: 149
Percent: 44%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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SeaMonkey Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh Linux or UNIX
SeaMonkey Features
- Text editor
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- CSS validator
- Page preview
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- FTP or Site manager
- Search and replace
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Additional CSS assistance
- Spell checking
- Customizable or extendable
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
What’s Missing from SeaMonkey
- Accessibility 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
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- Color coding
- 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
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- 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
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Google sitemaps
- 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)
- Can't change the doctype from the default HTML 4.01 Transitional
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Full price: Free
