Software:HyperEdit
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 HyperEdit running on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. | |
| Developer(s) | Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult Co. |
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| Initial release | July 23, 2003[1][2] |
| Stable release | 2.6.1
/ October 25, 2022[1] |
| Written in | Objective-C[3] |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | HTML editor |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | tumult |
Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.[4]
Development
In 2003, while studying computer science at Indiana's Purdue University, Jonathan Deutsch wrote HyperEdit to create a live HTML editor that would remove the need to save an HTML file and reload it in a browser to test each change.[5] French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003.[3] HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine.[5][6] It was initially released as donationware.[5]
HyperEdit was renamed to whisk with the release of version 2.0. Whisk was released as shareware with a free trial, and some of its code was taken from Deutsch's "Hype" web animation application.[3]
Features
The software is primarily targeted at web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. It offers customizable syntax highlighting for these web languages.[4][7]
Its features include W3C validation (which underlines mistakes in red), a JavaScript debugger, code snippets, and a real-time preview in the application's right pane.[4]
Reception
Macworld's Robert Ellis rated HyperEdit 4.5 mice out of 5, praising its live previewing and describing it as a lower-cost, less-bloated alternative to Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver.[4] Charles Arthur also praised it in The Independent and The Guardian, saying that its live preview turned a normally "miserable task" into something "interactive, fun, and much quicker". By 2004, Tucows rated it as the second-best HTML editor, ahead of Dreamweaver.[5][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Deutsch, Jonathan. "Version History". https://tumult.com/whisk/documentation/v2/version-history.html#_2-6-0.
- ↑ Absous, Vincent (24 July 2003). "Tumult HyperEdit s'appuie sur Safari" (in fr). https://www.macg.co/2003/07/tumult-hyperedit-sappuie-sur-safari-30266.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Furno, Nicolas (28 September 2020). "Éditeur HTML : seize ans après, HyperEdit de retour sous un nouveau nom" (in fr). https://www.macg.co/logiciels/2020/09/editeur-html-seize-ans-apres-hyperedit-de-retour-sous-un-nouveau-nom-116733.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Ellis, Robert (November 2004). "60 Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All)". Macworld 21 (11): 56–67. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=14690714&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Arthur, Charles (21 January 2004). "Charles Arthur on technology" (in en). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/charles-arthur-on-technology-5355133.html.
- ↑ Cohen, Peter. "HyperEdit HTML/PHP editor improves Leopard support" (in en). https://www.macworld.com/article/190374/hyperedit-2.html.
- ↑ Cook, Brad (May 16, 2004). "HyperEdit displays HTML code changes in real-time" (in en). https://www.macworld.com/article/171047/hyperedit.html.
- ↑ Arthur, Charles (7 March 2013). "Boot up: Apple's US win, Microsoft v EC numbers, phone switchers and more". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/mar/07/technology-links-newsbucket.
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