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Best html editor for mac for beginners

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This is simply THE BEST free full-featured, fully customizable HTML editor EVER. In my humble opinion, it is plain, straight-up, false advertising to call a WYSIWYG editor an 'HTML editor' since the primary task of a WYSIWYG editor is to avoid having to edit any raw HTML source code.

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Many, many times, I see WYSIWYG editors touted as 'HTML editors' and it irks me to no end. WYSIWYG is for those who do not wish to work at the source code level of a web page but instead wish to edit a facsimile of how the web page actually looks, much the same way you would use a word processor. A WYSIWYG editor is a WYSIWYG editor is a WYSIWYG editor. A WYSIWYG editor (a.k.a., visual web editor) is not an HTML editor. On the other side of the coin you have WYSIWYG editors. An HTML editor (a good one anyway) will provide many ways of automating the insertion of HTML tags in order to make working at the source code level a lot quicker and a lot easier. Typing out HTML code character-by-character can be a laborious task even for the most accomplished typist. First of all, I think some definitions are in order:Īn HTML editor is a text editor that makes the editing of HTML source code much simpler.