Description:
Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.

Author: Olivier Sessink
Homepage: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl

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How'd this get started?: At the time I was working as a web programmer (well, I was really doing a MSc in biotechnology, but I did a lot of website projects), and I needed two machines: a desktop, and a Linux server to run all the cool scripts and databases. I needed the desktop because I used Homesite to program all the scripts, and photoshop for images. The gimp was already pretty powerful, so if I could write an alternative to homesite I could do everything on one machine. So I did. After a while I had a stable editor, and on the gtk development mailinglist I met a guy that had written a lot of HTML toolbars. We merged, and changed the name to ProSite. Some time later, we changed the name to Bluefish, because the name ProSite was used by other programs, some of them in the web development area, and we wanted to avoid any legal issues. So in 1998 we released the first version of Bluefish.


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