Arachnophilia is a

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written in

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by Paul Lutus. It is the successor to another HTML editor, WebThing. The name ''Arachnophilia'' comes from the term meaning "love of

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s", a metaphor for the task of building on the

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. Arachnophilia is

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subject to the terms of the

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History

Once written as a

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application, the program was rewritten by Lutus in Java as part of his

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against Microsoft and its

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features for

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. Arachnophilia requires the

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, release 1.5 or later. The program was licensed as

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software, then as LGPL-2.1-or-later in 2011, and now as GPL-2.0-or-later since 2018 with the source available on the website.

Features

The program can import and convert to

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various

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documents, tables and outlines from any

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(and above) compliant application. The output of the code can be previewed in up to six different

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s. It supports CGI, frames and other languages beside HTML, for instance

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, and

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development. Other features include: *

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* User-customizable toolbars * Full drag and drop support * Global search and replace * Built-in FTP client * Automatic uploading of files * User-defined templates * User-defined macros * User-defined key bindings

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Arachnophilia Home Page
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