HyperEdit
Mac OS X application for editing HTML
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Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.[4]
| Whisk | |
|---|---|
| |
 HyperEdit running on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. | |
| Developers | Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult Co. |
| Initial release | July 23, 2003[1][2] |
| Stable release | 2.6.1
/ October 25, 2022[1] |
| Written in | Objective-C[3] |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | HTML editor |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | tumult |
Development
In 2003, while studying computer science at Indiana's Purdue University, Jonathan Deutsch wrote HyperEdit to create a live HTML editor that would remove the need to save an HTML file and reload it in a browser to test each change.[5] French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003.[3] HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine.[5][6] It was initially released as donationware.[5]
HyperEdit was renamed to whisk with the release of version 2.0. Whisk was released as shareware with a free trial, and some of its code was taken from Deutsch's "Hype" web animation application.[3]
Features
The software is primarily targeted at web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. It offers customizable syntax highlighting for these web languages.[4][7]
Its features include W3C validation (which underlines mistakes in red), a JavaScript debugger, code snippets, and a real-time preview in the application's right pane.[4]
Reception
Macworld's Robert Ellis rated HyperEdit 4.5 mice out of 5, praising its live previewing and describing it as a lower-cost, less-bloated alternative to Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver.[4] Charles Arthur also praised it in The Independent and The Guardian, saying that its live preview turned a normally "miserable task" into something "interactive, fun, and much quicker". By 2004, Tucows rated it as the second-best HTML editor, ahead of Dreamweaver.[5][8]