HTML 5 Development Tools

List of tools for developing applications with HTML interface 5.

Publishers and EDI

Of course, any text editor allows you to write HTML code 5. But what's interesting is the WYSIWYG display, as Dreamweaver does with HTML package 5, and is far from free. But there are many alternatives.

NetBeans version 7, EDI for Java, C++, and PHP, now includes HTML editing 5. Classic EDIs tend to add HTML 5 and JavaScript to the list of supported languages, while new tools like LightTable are specifically dedicated to writing JavaScript or other dynamic languages. It allows you to change JavaScript code while the program is running!

Ace is not the final installation tool, but rather a library for creating an HTML editor 5 that works as independent software or plugin. Ace is used in the JavaScript version of Advanced Explorer, with a personalized interface. The project, however, is worse supported than CodeMirror, which usually becomes the benchmark for building an editor.

IBM launched a development environment project dedicated to HTML 5, Maqetta (image right), as it had previously launched the Eclipse project. It is a successful software for visually creating HTML interfaces that target either the desktop or mobile devices. In this case, it is displayed on the virtual mobile phone. It has since been abandoned by IBM, but the publisher is still online.

Probably one of the reasons for IBM's carelessness is the emergence of many other development environments for this platform. Among them is Intel's XDK. His interest is the ability to generate applications for different environments from one source, both on the desktop and on mobile devices.

Creating games on Canvas

Scirra's Construct 2 software allows you to perform a drag-and-drop game using HTML 5 functions.
The concept looks attractive, but it has drawbacks. During the game, there are breaks due to crumbs that clear memory, for example. The sound is not up to the end. Hopefully, the next versions of browsers will make this type of game more playable. It is necessary to enable hardware acceleration on browsers for sufficient smoothness .

Test pages

The HTML 5 test allows you to check browser compatibility on the Internet .

The list of form objects on this site also allows you to check which HTML 5 tags are supported by the browser, as well as check attribute support.

Transducers and parsers

Wallaby converts flash files to HTML. This converter is provided by the creator of Flash, Adobe .

Suffi. Google offers an online tool for converting SWF files to HTML 5, SVG and CSS 3 and creating Flash Player.

Gumbo. Google, full of HTML 5 in C, and tolerant of imperfect code. The firm says it tested on two and a half billion pages, thanks to a search engine index. There is another parser, Hubbub, which works in SAX mode (reading and parsing by elements), while Gumbo works in tree mode, less fast but simpler. Of course, the second is better tested.