HTML editors (Computer programs) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Forta, B. Sams teach yourself HomeSite 4 in 24 hours, 1999: p. 19 ("Editing versus Authoring: Web page authoring tools are built around the premise that you, the page developer, don't want to learn or know HTML ... Under the hood, [authoring] tools [like Microsoft FrontPage] are actually generating HTML code for you, but the authoring tool attempts to hide this fact ... Professional Web developers generally shy away from these [authoring] tools [because of their limitations and prefer to] ... use editors rather than authoring tools. Editors are programs used to manually create and manipulate HTML; they don't hide the HTML, they present it to you directly for you to edit.")

Allaire Co. website ("What is the difference between a WYSIWYG authoring tool and an HTML editor? A WYSIWYG tool has a visual environment that shields the user from the HTML. An HTML editor provides some visual tools, but the user works directly in the HTML for more precise layout control, greater design flexibility, and higher-performance Web pages.")

Microsoft website FrontPage 2000 (HTML editing tools include HomeSite, 1-4-ALL, Actionpad, Agile HTML editor, Arachnophilia, Aweb developer, Click-o-mania, CoffeeCup HTML editor, Cute HTML, LiquidFX Professional, namo WebEditor, QuikEdit, Web Weaver; there is some confusion about which software is an authoring tool and which an editor, e.g. Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000("the most popular html editing tool!"))