TopStyle

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TopStyle

Image:TopStyle Screenshot.png TopStyle
Developer:	NewsGator Technologies
Latest release:	3.12 /
OS:	Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista
Use:
License:	Proprietary
Website:	newsgator.com

TopStyle is an CSS/XHTML/HTML editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Nick Bradbury and owned by NewsGator Technologies. The editor is code centric rather than WYSIWYG, with integrated support for previews using either the Mozilla Gecko or Internet Explorer Trident layout engines. The software is available as a commercial version with a trial period, or a free version with less features. As of 2006, a Linux or Mac OS version is not planned. ^[1]

1 History
2 Features
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

TopStyle was created by Nick Bradbury. He also created Macromedia HomeSite (then just "HomeSite") in 1995. HomeSite was acquired by Allaire in March 1997, Macromedia in 2001, and finally (as of 2006) Adobe Systems. Nick Bradbury left the company to found Bradbury Software in 2003 and created the editor TopStyle and a news aggregator titled FeedDemon. Bradbury Software was acquired by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005, a company unrelated to Claria Corporation and their adware Gator e-Wallet. ^[2]

[edit] Features

TopStyle supports HTML, XHTML, and CSS editing in various revisions, along with powerful checking for standards and browser compatibility issues. Checking optionally covers a variety of levels, such as a strict W3C CSS specifications, to issues on a wide variety of browsers. This style checker feature not only provides detailed warning messages, but enables the user to visually see if parts of HTML or CSS code would be incompatible with a particular browser.

The software additionally supports converting deprecated HTML styling to CSS code and converting HTML code to valid XHTML.

TopStyle integrates with HTML Tidy, and W3C's validation services.