Features of Editor Tools should provide for Following

Features of Editor Tools should provide for

1. Autocoding - The tool should provide for automatic coding in the background when the developer assembles the objects on the web page, thereby relieving the eveloper of remembering the HTML code.

2. Modifying the Code - The developer should be free to change or modify a portion of the code or change certain setting through HTML coding but the corresponding output has to be properly affected by the editor.

3. Object library - There are many editors that are more than just editors as they perform the tasks of debugger as well as code generator by use of concepts like the object libraries.

4. WYSIWYG kind of output - The software tool should generate output exactly as designed and laid out by the developers.

5. Compatibility with other server architectures - The editor should support powerful web server such as Apache, iPlanet or Zeus web servers.

6. Compatibiity with other platforms - The editors should produce output accepatable to all platforms such as Unix, Solaris, Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Sun Cobalt etc.

7. Less memory usage - The tools should not consume all the memory space and swap area for want of enormous amount of memory for storing images , texts, links and other parameters.

8. Preview of the output - This feature proves to be of great to the develpers since the need to switch over the browsers to the affect of every small change would consume memory space, time and efforts.

9. ActiveX Data Object Support - New properties and methods to provide a tighter integration with the editor tools should be provided.

10. Java Support - The editor tool should provide for support to use of JAVA technologies such as Java Script, Java Beans, Applets etc.

11. Acceptability of variants - Though this aspect purely depends on the changing market trends, it desirable that the editor should be able to accept coding specific to variants of the HTML such as DHTML, XML, SGML, VRML, WML ect. and be capable to generate output in these formats whenever felt necessary.

12. Site map - A proper view or estimate of how the website is organized and how massive it is mistakes the website more attractive.

13. Simple and elegent user interface - The use of various objects such as colours, background, textures, buttons, banners etc. make the webpages look more beautiful.

14. Compatibility to popular word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.

15. Clipart support - Most editors come with a huge gallery of clipart and some even provide a collection of sounds, music and multimedia clips.

16. Audio support - The editors should provide for playback of audio files of various formats.

17. Multimedia capabilities - The editors should also give the option of playing multimedia files so that the website gives a much better look and feel.

18. Extension of support to various file formats.

19. Powerful search and replace facility - The editors should be smart enough to locate for a particular word or phrase in the entire website on click of the mouse button.

20. Managing different peripheral devices - Devices such as web camera, scanner, light pen etc. can be handled directly through the editor for better flexibility.