Firefox Developer Edition. Firefox Developer Edition brings you latest features, fast performance. BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards. Because Gecko lives inside BlueGriffon, the document you edit will look exactly the same in Firefox.
BlueGriffon comes with four different view modes. You can switch between them with the buttons along the bottom of the screen. The Wysiwyg ('What you see is what you get') view looks and behaves much like a Word Processor. It is open-source and it is free. It is an HTML editor based on the Mozilla rendering engine. It also supports some CSS3 features and since recently has a built-in SVG editor. There are many interesting features of BlueGriffon that you will find. It is a content editor for WWW i.e.
BlueGriffon has serious problems on recent versions of macOS, the authors don't appear to react on bugreports. So we stopped making BlueGriffon available via the Self-Service.
What is BlueGriffon ?
It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko.
BlueGriffon also includes SVG-edit, an XUL-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.
How to install BlueGriffon?
How to use BlueGriffon ?
The user manual is available online, only for CERN users, here
What are the differences between the free version and the commercial one ?
The Basic version add :
- The user's manual
- Responsive design
- Fullscreen mode
- CSS Editor Pro with Media Queries, CSS Variables and even a visual CSS Selector editor!
- Table Layout Manager with 44 predefined layouts, all strictly CSS-based
- Toolkit Manager for one-click insertion of multiple JavaScript/CSS files
- MathML Editor panel (based on ASCIIMathML)
- Code Snippets panel
- One-Click Templates Manager with ~2,500 free templates
- Mobile Viewer
- EyeDropper, a colorpicker allowing to select a color from anywhere on screen(s) (Windows and Linux only)
- PUTter, to publish a document and the local resources attached to that document through HTTP PUT
- Thumbnail manager
- Word count warnings
- Project Manager
The Epub edition add all the necessary features to produce quality Epub contents:
- EPUB 2
- EPUB 3.0
- EPUB 3.1
- full metadata editing support for EPUB 2, 3 and 3.1
- copy/paste between EPUB and all flavors of html