''BlueGriffon'' is a
WYSIWYG
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content editor for the
World Wide Web
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
. It is based on the discontinued
Nvu
Mozilla Composer is the free and open-source HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite (the predecessor to SeaMonkey). It is used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents easily. It is compatible w ...
editor, which in turn is based on the
Composer
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component of the
Mozilla Application Suite
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, which was previously known as
Netscape Composer
Netscape Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor initially developed by Netscape Communications Corporation in 1997, and packaged as part of the Netscape Communicator, Netscape 6 and Netscape 7 range of Internet suites. In addition, Composer can also vi ...
, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to
Netscape Communicator
Netscape Communicator (or ''Netscape 4'') is a discontinued Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, and was the fourth major release in the Netscape line of browsers. It was first in beta in 1996 and was released in June 1 ...
. Powered by
Gecko
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Geckos ar ...
, the rendering engine of
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...
, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It runs on
Microsoft Windows
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,
macOS
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and
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
.
BlueGriffon complies with the
W3C
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's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to
HTML 4
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,
XHTML
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While HTML, prior ...
1.1,
HTML 5
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and XHTML 5. It supports
CSS
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2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko. BlueGriffon also includes
SVG-edit
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Overview
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, an
XUL
XUL ( ), which stands for XML User Interface Language, is a user interface markup language developed by Mozilla. XUL is an XML dialect for writing graphical user interfaces, enabling developers to write user interface elements in a manner simila ...
-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...
and was adapted to BlueGriffon.
A version is free to download and is available on
Windows
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,
macOS
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and
Linux
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.
Two enhancements are available via add-ons: '
FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, open-source, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox in the form of an add-on. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. FireFTP is charityware and runs on platforms that Firefox supports. FireFTP's layout is similar to that of ...
' and 'Dictionaries' in 13 languages, free to download.
Awards
Disruptive Innovations was one of five Innovation award winners for its BlueGriffon project during the Demo Cup organized as part of the 2010 Open World Forum held in Paris in October 2010.
In 2013, Disruptive Innovations received the META Seal of Recognition from the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance for being the first editor to implement the three main data categories of the W3C Internationalization Tag Set 2.0
See also
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Comparison of HTML editors
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Please see the individual products' articles for further information, comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word ...
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KompoZer
Mozilla Composer is the free and open-source HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite (the predecessor to SeaMonkey). It is used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents easily. It is compatible w ...
, also based on
Nvu
Mozilla Composer is the free and open-source HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite (the predecessor to SeaMonkey). It is used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents easily. It is compatible w ...
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Maqetta
Maqetta is a free and open-source, web-based WYSIWYG HTML editor designed to edit HTML5 documents and web applications. Its name is derived from the Spanish word ''maqueta'', that means “mock-up”. The Maqetta application itself is authored in ...
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