OS/2 HTML Editors

This is a listing of all OS/2 HTML editing tools known to me (except for the ones you've emailed me about, that I haven't gotten around to including in the list yet).

I have lists for the following platforms: Amiga, DOS, Mac, NeXTstep, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows.

Would you like to make a contribution?

Important Note:

I'm sorry, but I am unable to give advice on what editor is most suitable for your specific needs. (For whatever it's worth, I use vi.) I do the best I can to keep up with what editors exist, but I don't have nearly enough time to try them out, or do detailed feature comparisons. If anyone knows of sites giving editor reviews, feature comparisons, or similar information, please let me know and I'll list it here.

Easy HTML

• Author: Mike Gebis, NCSA
• Availability: Free
• Current version:
• Homepage: http://ox.ncsa.uiuc.edu/easyhtml/easy.html
• Description: A World Wide Web forms-based interactive editor for HTML files. Guides the user through the process of creating and editing an HTML document via a Web browser. Allows continual previewing of the document in progress and saving of the finished product to the user's local disk.

HTML Wizard (HTMLWIZ)

• Author: Dirk Terrell ([email protected])
• Availability: Shareware, $20
• Current version: 1.60
• Homepage: http://www.gnv.com/HTMLWizard/
• Description: Makes editing HTML documents much easier by providing a "Tagbar" that inserts appropriate tags around text. Has user-definable tags and supports non-English characters. Previewing with Web Explorer also supported.

Page

• Author: Derek Clarkson
• Availability: Shareware, $35
• Current version: 1.1a
• Homepage: http://www.wilmington.net/bmtmicro/
• Description: Includes tag checker, table editor, extensive help, relative paths, drag and drop support both to and from the editor, mini parameter dialogs for tags, extensive hotkey support, and designed for speed editing.

QadHTML

• Author: Qad Software
• Availability: Shareware, $15
• Current version: 0.35
• Homepage: http://www.magi.com/~mcharet/
• Description:

SpHyDir

• Author: PCLT (Howard Gilbert?)
• Availability:
• Current version:
• Homepage: ? http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/sphydir/SPHYDIR.HTM
• Description: SpHyDir is an Object Oriented tool that builds documents for Web Browsers such as Netscape, Mosaic, and Web Explorer. With SpHyDir the user concentrates on the important issues of content and overall document structure. Since SpHyDir automatically generates the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), it is possible to generate flawless Web documents without studying obscure syntax diagrams.

WebElite

• Author: Cliff Biffle, Network Safety Corp.
• Availability: Shareware, $35
• Current version: 0.99c
• Homepage: http://www.safety.net/webelite/
• Description: Fast, intuitive editor that simplifies HTML2.0 and much HTML3, including automatic insertion of character entities, addition of user defined tags, and automated creation of forms and tables. Keeps URL databases for easy insertion. Multi-threaded for fast operation in Windows 3.1 and 95. Documents may be previewed directly in any Web browser, and can communicate with Netscape 1.2 and greater using DDE. Includes syntax checking, long files names, template support for creating boiler-plate text documents, text database import capability and various ways to convert text to HTML automatically.

WebWriter/2

• Author: John Blumel
• Availability: Shareware, $30
• Current version: 1.1
• Homepage: http://wymple.gs.net/~jblumel/ww2_home.html
• Description: Full support is provided for HTML 2.0 tags and character entities as well as a user defined tag capability allowing you to add new tags as they are introduced or to create your own customized elements. Multi-threaded design allows you to open and edit multiple HTML documents simultaneously. Documents can be previewed from WebWriter/2 using either IBM's WebExplorer or another WWW client including Netscape. It's also available at ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/editors/ww2_100.zip. (This is version 1.0.)