BlueGriffon is a free open source WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

 HTML editor

HTML editor

An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality. For example, many HTML editors work not only with HTML, but also with related...

. It replaces Nvu

Nvu

Nvu is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1.7. It is a common WYSIWYG editor for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, intended to be an open source equivalent to proprietary software like Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver...

, an earlier program that was also written by Daniel Glazman

Daniel Glazman

Daniel Glazman is a JavaScript programmer, best known for his work on Mozilla's Editor and Composer components and Nvu, a standalone version of the Mozilla Composer, created for Linspire Corporation. He lives in France....

. It is based on Gecko

Gecko (layout engine)

Gecko is a free and open source layout engine used in many applications developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation , as well as in many other open source software projects....

, the rendering engine inside Firefox, and uses XULRunner

XULRunner

XULRunner is a runtime environment developed by the Mozilla Foundation to provide a common back-end for XUL-based applications. It replaced the Gecko Runtime Environment, a stalled project with a similar purpose....

, the runtime environment for Gecko. It runs on Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Windows and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

.

BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML

XHTML

XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....

 1.0, HTML 5

HTML 5

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development...

 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS

CSS

-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...

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

SVG-edit

SVG-edit is a web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser:* Firefox 1.5+* Opera 9.50+* Safari 4+* Chrome 1+* Internet Explorer 6+...

, an XUL

XUL

In computer programming, XUL , the XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project. XUL operates in Mozilla cross-platform applications such as Firefox...

-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.

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 on the 1st of October 2010.

See also

• Maqetta
  Maqetta
  Maqetta is a free and open-source, WYSIWYG HTML editor designed to edit HTML5 documents and web applications. Its name is derived from the Spanish word maqueta, that means “mock-up”....
  
  
• Comparison of HTML editors
  Comparison of HTML editors
  The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date...
  
  
• KompoZer
  KompoZer
  KompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on a rewritten version of the now-discontinued Nvu editor. KompoZer is maintained as a community-driven fork and is a project on Sourceforge....
  
  - also based on Nvu

External links

• Users' Community
• Documentation wiki
• Bugs and suggestions