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Authoring tools and editors
From SVGIG
See also the wishlist for what we would like to see...
Contents
Graphical editors
(You know, the kind where you make a drawing by drawing instead of by writing lots of funny codes)
- Inkscape (has XML mode)
- Sketsa
- Amaya (fairly basic)
- Illustrator
Some known editors for SVG, or XML with SVG smarts
- Opera Dragonfly
- Firefox/Firebug
- Mozilla/SeaMonkey
- HTMLKit
- oXygen
- notepad++
- TextPad
- Eclipse
- gedit
- Safari Web Inspector
- WebDwarf
HTML editors that appear not to handle SVG
Initials of reviewer should follow.
- KompoZer - DD
- Nvu - DD
- Aptana Studio - DD
- PSPad - DD
Helpful tools
- Fiddler Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet.
- SVGFontKit: a tool for importing fonts into browsers that don't yet support them
Features to consider in picking editors
- cost
- ease of learning
- svg preview
- html preview
- tag completion
- syntax highlighting
- javascript syntax awareness
- javascript debugging
- javascript preview
- html / svg DOM communication
- compound document support (including object, embed and foreignObject)
- support for both xhtml and html/quirk-y
- inspection of dynamic DOM
- multiple browser simulation
- wysiwyg editing mode
- wysiwyg drawing pad
- web based
- ease of installation
- open source
- built-in FTP
- CSS edit
Links to existing reviews of SVG authoring tools
- The bottom part of this page has links to several SVG editors (mostly WYSIWYG).
-- Most of the following are HTML specific, but some may handle SVG --