TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.


The best open source alternative to Microsoft Office FrontPage is TextMate. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Microsoft Office FrontPage and six of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Microsoft Office FrontPage are KompoZer, eXe - the eLearning XHTML editor, Primo.af and Quanta Plus.
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.


KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.


The eXe project developed a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.




Quanta Plus is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages. It is part of KDE, a Linux desktop environment, released in the Kdewebdev package.


No images, vague tables, poor formatting, inserting links more difficult than in HTML itself.