HyperEdit

Last updated
Whisk
Developer(s) Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult Co.
Initial releaseJuly 23, 2003;20 years ago (2003-07-23) [1] [2]
Stable release
2.6.1 / October 25, 2022 [1]
Written in Objective-C [3]
Operating system macOS
Type HTML editor
License Shareware
Website tumult.com/whisk/

Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch. [4]

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Development

In 2003, while studying computer science at Indiana's Purdue University, Jonathan Deutsch wrote HyperEdit to create a live HTML editor that would remove the need to save an HTML file and reload it in a browser to test each change. [5] French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003. [3] HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine. [5] [6] It was initially released as donationware. [5]

HyperEdit was renamed to whisk with the release of version 2.0. Whisk was released as shareware with a free trial, and some of its code was taken from Deutsch's "Hype" web animation application. [3]

Features

The software is primarily targeted at web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. It offers customizable syntax highlighting for these web languages. [4] [7]

Its features include W3C validation (which underlines mistakes in red), a JavaScript debugger, code snippets, and a real-time preview in the application's right pane. [4]

Reception

Macworld's Robert Ellis rated HyperEdit 4.5 mice out of 5, praising its live previewing and describing it as a lower-cost, less-bloated alternative to Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. [4] Charles Arthur also praised it in The Independent and The Guardian, saying that its live preview turned a normally "miserable task" into something "interactive, fun, and much quicker". By 2004, Tucows rated it as the second-best HTML editor, ahead of Dreamweaver. [5] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Deutsch, Jonathan. "Version History". tumult.com. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  2. Absous, Vincent (24 July 2003). "Tumult HyperEdit s'appuie sur Safari". MacGeneration (in French). Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Furno, Nicolas (28 September 2020). "Éditeur HTML : seize ans après, HyperEdit de retour sous un nouveau nom". MacGeneration (in French). Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ellis, Robert (November 2004). "60 Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All)". Macworld. Vol. 21, no. 11. pp. 56–67. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Arthur, Charles (21 January 2004). "Charles Arthur on technology". The Independent . Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  6. Cohen, Peter. "HyperEdit HTML/PHP editor improves Leopard support". Macworld. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  7. Cook, Brad (May 16, 2004). "HyperEdit displays HTML code changes in real-time". Macworld. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  8. Arthur, Charles (7 March 2013). "Boot up: Apple's US win, Microsoft v EC numbers, phone switchers and more". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2023.