Apache NetBeans vs. HTML-NOTEPAD vs. NoteTab vs. Trix Comparison Chart

It is a WYSIWYG editor of structured documents, texts that have hierarchical and semantically meaningful structure, headers, lists, plaintext islands, tables and so on. HTML-NOTEPAD is not a “web page editor”. Don’t even expect to create “cool web pages” with it. With modern CSS, WYSIWYG Web design is simply impossible. Web pages are crafted manually by editing CSS, that is by nature of CSS. But still, HTML-NOTEPAD can be useful for Web designers too, for the cases when we need to create textual (yet structural) content of our pages. HTML-NOTEPAD uses Sciter Engine for its UI. That means it is small, fast, does not have external dependencies and works on all major desktop operating systems, Windows (from XP to 10), Mac OS, and Linux. WYSIWYG editing has limitations, some operations are significantly more convenient to do in source code representation. That’s why HTML-NOTEPAD supports “pass-through selection”.

Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists, the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML. Most WYSIWYG editors are wrappers around HTML’s contenteditable and execCommand APIs, designed by Microsoft to support live editing of web pages in Internet Explorer 5.5, and eventually reverse-engineered and copied by other browsers. Because these APIs were never fully specified or documented, and because WYSIWYG HTML editors are enormous in scope, each browser’s implementation has its own set of bugs and quirks, and JavaScript developers are left to resolve the inconsistencies. Trix sidesteps these inconsistencies by treating contenteditable as an I/O device: when input makes its way to the editor, Trix converts that input into an editing operation on its internal document model.