About Boxer Text Editor
Boxer is a very powerful text editor. It offers a lot of features for Windows users and would be perfect for a web developer who writes a lot of code in non-web languages. There are tons of text-editor specific features that make it easy to use. I would absolutely love this editor if there were more XML support (like validation or well-formedness checking). One thing it does have that is useful is a lot of pre-built macros.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 12, 2011.
Boxer Text Editor Latest Review
Boxer Text Editor Version: 14
Score: 123
Percent: 37%
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Boxer Text Editor Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows
Boxer Text Editor Features
- Text editor
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Free trial
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Lots of macros
What’s Missing from Boxer Text Editor
- 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
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- 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
- Additional CSS assistance
- 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
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Customizable or extendable
