HTML Editors and Web Authoring Tools

The SEP's web pages currently conform to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. Here is a list of web pages and web sites where you might find some useful HTML-editors and other web-authoring tools that can produce HTML to this standard (if configured correctly):

• KompoZer, available for all platforms. Be sure to configure it as follows:
  • Preferences → General → Retain original source formatting.
  • Preferences → New Page Settings → Character Set → Unicode (UTF-8).
  • Preferences → Advanced → Markup → Language → XHTML 1.
  • Preferences → Advanced → Markup → DTD → Transitional.
  • Preferences → Advanced → Special characters → Output the following characters as entities → HTML 4 special characters
• Nvu. This is an earlier version of KompoZer, but is still quite usable. Please configure it as follows:
  • Preferences → General → Retain original source formatting.
  • Preferences → New Page Settings → Markup → Language → XHTML 1.
  • Preferences → New Page Settings → Markup → DTD → Transitional.
• Dreamweaver (Adobe). Please configure Dreamweaver as follows:
  • Preferences → Code Rewriting → Fix invalidly nested and unclosed tags (check)
  • Preferences → Code Rewriting → Warn when fixing or removing tags (check)
  • Validator → Set to XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• TextWrangler (for Mac only), a raw HTML editor.
• Wikipedia Web Page on HTML Editors