HTMLPad HTML editor : Java Glossary

Advantages

• It is quite configurable.
• It properly highlights entities. The colour scheme for syntax highlighting is well chosen.
• It can convert chars to entities and back.
• The preview mode is accurate. It even runs Applets, but is quite slow to react.
• It hooks into HTMLtidy and CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) HTMLValidator.
• It will convert tags to upper or lower case, but it won’t do it automatically.
• In split mode, it tries to keep the preview up-to-date with the code view, but doing this greatly slows typing.
• It uses a real browser to preview, so the renderings are decent quality. The visual edit mode renderings are far more accurate than Dreamweaver’s.
• Applets work properly because they think they are running in the original directory.
• When you highlight a word, it also partially highlights all other uses of that same same word.
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts.
• You can select colour numbers by pointing to the colour on a palette.
• It can also edit and format CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) style sheets.

Disadvantages

• It does not provide any means to apply style classes to selections.
• You cannot edit visually.
• It tends to salt your text with unwanted  s that you have to manualy turn back into spaces.
• It has no syntax checker or beautifier.