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BlueGriffon was a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. It is based on the discontinued Nvu editor, which in turn is based on the Composer component of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was previously known as Netscape Composer, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to Netscape Communicator. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It ran on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.
| BlueGriffon | |
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| Developer | Daniel Glazman |
| Final release | |
| Written in | C/C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows macOS Linux |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | 20 languages[3] |
List of languages English (USA), Czech, German, Spanish (Castellano), Finnish, French (France), Galician, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hungarian, Serbian. | |
| Type | HTML editor |
| License | MPL-2.0 Proprietary license for most add-ons |
| Website | bluegriffon |
| Repository | |
BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko. BlueGriffon also includes SVG-edit, an XUL-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.
The last proprietary release of BlueGriffon 3.1 can be found on the Internet Archive, available for Windows, macOS and Linux, as well as two enhancements via add-ons: 'FireFTP' and 'Dictionaries' in 13 languages.[4]
In March 2024, BlueGriffon was discontinued, announced by a signed message on the project's website. There, Daniel Glazman explains the decision was made in part after changes to third party technologies BlueGriffon relied on, the effort and time required to transition BlueGriffon to a web application, as well as a personal need to move on.[5] Following the announcement, the source code of BlueGriffon was released to the public on GitHub, under the MPL-2.0 license, where it remains available.[6]
Awards
editDisruptive Innovations was one of five Innovation award winners for its BlueGriffon project during the Demo Cup organized as part of the 2010 Open World Forum held in Paris in October 2010.[7]
In 2013, Disruptive Innovations received the META Seal of Recognition from the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance for being the first editor to implement the three main data categories of the W3C Internationalization Tag Set 2.0[8]
See also
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- Comparison of HTML editors
- KompoZer, also based on Nvu
- Maqetta
References
edit- ↑ "Release 3.1". 14 October 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ↑ "Release 3.1". 4 December 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ↑ "BlueGriffon". bluegriffon.org. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ↑ "Download BlueGriffon 3.1". Archived from the original on 2024-03-24.
- ↑ "Goodbye friends!". Archived from the original on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ "therealglazou/bluegriffon: BlueGriffon, the Web editor".
- ↑ "2010 Open Innovation Demo Cup and Awards". Open World Forum. Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
- ↑ "META Seal of Recognition".