Bluefish 0.3.6 HTML editor

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Bluefish is a GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer. It is very usable (a lot of websites are already created using Bluefish) but new features might be not yet completely finished. A lot of people actually email that they think it is the best! Bluefish is released under the GPL licence.

If you like this program, please let me know and send me a postcard and tell me which country/state you're from:

Olivier Sessink
Haarweg 17
6709 PH
Wageningen
the Netherlands

I'll soon make a photo from the cards and post it on the website!

Development and testing

If you like to join debugging or development: you're welcome, just join the mailinglist.

Send an email containing "subscribe bluefish-dev" in the body to listar@lists.ems.ru to join development, translations or testing.

You can also join channel #bluefish on IRCNET, but we're not always there.

Requirements

Bluefish should run on any unix like system that has the GTK libraries installed, It is written and tested using Linux. Bluefish requires the Gtk-1.2.* library, and for the image dialogs to work it requires the Imlib library. This is tested on FreeBSD/i386, NetBSD/Mac68k, Linux/i386, Linux/alpha and probably more. For so me functionality Bluefish depends (optional) on external programs. Weblint is used for HTML cleanup, and Netscape is used as a HTML viewer. Version 0.3.3 and 0.3.4 can optionally use the GtkEditor widget, but this is still experimental (but the syntax highlighting looks good). However, the GtkEditor widget seems to be not completely stable yet so the current version uses gtkeditor independent code for highlighting.

Functionality

Nice wizards for startup, tables, frames, and others
HTML toolbar and tearable menu's
Open from the web
Fully featured image insert dialog
Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image
Custom toolbar
Project management
Per project customized default dialog settings
Reference for PHP3, SSI and RXML (over 900 functions referenced)
Preview options for dynamic HTML
One of the most complete CSS dialogs
Syntax highlighting with configurable regular expressions
A nice configuration dialog

Current development

We just released a new version, so there's nothing new yet. But we do have plans for the next version:

More taqs supported in the edit tags right-click menu
More and better configuration
A new (stable) custom menu
External filters support
Better project management

Current authors

for Bluefish related comments and questions	email
Olivier Sessink	email , web page
Roland Steinbach
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho	email , web page
Gero Takke

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