About XStandard Pro
XStandard is an HTML editor that is embedded into the web page or content management system (CMS) application directly. This is not exactly an editor for everyone, but if you need to allow people who visit your sites the opportunity to edit HTML and you need valid HTML and CSS, this is a good solution. The pro version also includes an API to extend the functionality. This is a great product for professional designers who install CMS onto the sites they build so their clients can maintain them. The price listed is for a 10 user/1 URL license.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers or Small Business Owners
Review last updated: October 1, 2011.
XStandard Pro Latest Review
XStandard Pro Version: 3.0
Score: 109.5
Percent: 33%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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XStandard Pro Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows
Features:
- WYSIWYG editor
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- Page preview
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write XHTML documents
- FTP or Site manager
- Search and replace
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Can edit CSS
- Additional CSS assistance
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Customizable or extendable
- Free trial
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Not a standalone web editor, it must live within a browser or CMS.
- It uses blockquotes for quotations and CSS for indenting.
- HTML5 elements are treated as “custom” elements, and can be added but not validated
What's Missing
- Text editor
- HTML validator
- XML validator
- 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
- Write HTML 5 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
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- 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
- 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)
- No discounts for upgrades
