About TextEdit
TextEdit is the free text editor that comes with Macintosh OS X systems. It doesn’t have a lot of features specifically for web development, but if you want to start quickly writing HTML and don’t want to have to download anything, this is a great place to start. If you plan to use TextEdit, be sure to read the how to: Edit HTML with TextEdit as there are some tricks to how it handles HTML.
Target Market(s): Newcomers to Web Design
Review last updated: November 2, 2011.
TextEdit Latest Review
TextEdit Version: 10.7
Score: 78
Percent: 23%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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TextEdit Technical Details
Operating System(s): Macintosh
TextEdit Features
- Text editor
- Search and replace
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Spell checking
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
What’s Missing from TextEdit
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- 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
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- 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 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
- 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
- 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)
- Customizable or extendable
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Full price: Free
