''BlueGriffon'' is a

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content editor for the

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. It is based on the discontinued

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editor, which in turn is based on the

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component of the

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, which was previously known as

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, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to

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. Powered by

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, the rendering engine of

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, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It runs on

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and

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. BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to

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1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports

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2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko. BlueGriffon also includes

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, an

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-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to

and was adapted to BlueGriffon. A version is free to download and is available on

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and

. Two enhancements are available via add-ons: ' FireFTP' 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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bluegriffon Mozilla Free HTML editors Linux text-related software Cross-platform software Software that uses XUL Software using the Mozilla license

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