About SlickEdit
SlickEdit is a coder’s text editor. It isn’t specifically an HTML or XML editor, but it does have support for both languages. I love that you can customize how the code is formatted so you can have the HTML indented exactly how you want it. If you do a lot of coding in other programming languages like Java, C/C++, and so on, you'll like that you can edit your HTML pages right in the same editor with SlickEdit. You can also get SlickEdit core that works with Eclipse.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 27, 2011.
SlickEdit Latest Review
SlickEdit Version: 2011
Score: 109
Percent: 32%
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SlickEdit Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh Linux or UNIX
SlickEdit Features
- Text editor
- XML validator
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- 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
- Version control
- Customizable or extendable
- Free trial
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
What’s Missing from SlickEdit
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS 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
- FTP or Site manager
- 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
- 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
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
