The story

Friday, August 15, 2003

WebEdit is an application with some history. As a web author, I wanted more than Notepad and the Windows Explorer for managing my projects. Although there have been fancy HTML editors on the market for a long time, the key feature I was missed was seamless integration of file management features within the editor. What I wanted was the ability to open, preview, save or publish files - quickly. This had to be done from one place. I aimed at the redundant convenience that is available in web browsers, namely that one can access information in a variety of ways, with as few steps as possible.

The web browser editor concept was born. WebEdit got an address bar, a history, favorites support, a file searcher, and hyperlink emulation. WebEdit would support the ready use of other applications (such as browsers, other text editors, image viewer/editors), starting right from the information shown in the application itself.

Later, rudimentary FTP support was added. Likewise, source code browsing via HTTP was something I deemed quite useful for discovering what's behind interesting pages on the web.

More information

Please refer to the WebEdit.NET documention pages.

For more background on WebEdit concepts, read the pages on WebEdit.Classic.