Arachnophilia

Infobox Software
name = Arachnophilia



caption = Screenshot of Arachnophila editing an HTML document
developer = Paul Lutus
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operating_system = Cross-platform
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genre = HTML editor
license = Careware
website = [http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia]

Arachnophilia is a popular text-based HTML editor written in Java by Paul Lutus. It is known to be a successor to another HTML editor WebThing. The program is licensed as a Careware [http://www.arachnoid.com/careware/index.html] type of software. The program's name comes from the term meaning "love of spiders", a fair metaphor for the job of building webs.

History

Once written as a Windows application, the program was rewritten by Lutus in Java as part of his boycott against Microsoft and its product activation features for Windows XP products. To work, Arachnophilia requires the Java 2 runtime environment, release 1.4 or better installed.

Features

The program can import and convert to HTML various RTF documents, tables and outlines from any Windows 95 (and above) compliant application. It supports up to six web browsers, CGI, frames and other languages beside HTML, for instance PHP, Perl, C++, Java, and JavaScript development.

Other features include:
*multiple-document interface
*user-customizable toolbars
*full drag and drop support
*global search and replace
*built-in FTP client
*automatic uploading of files
*user-defined templates

ee also

*List of HTML editors
*Comparison of HTML editors

External links

* [http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html Arachnophilia Home Page]