Oldest HTML Editor for Mac?

[dcr]

Does anyone know what the oldest HTML editor for the Mac might be?  That is, not something like TeachText or SimpleText where you manually coded everything, but software designed for editing HTML pages.

BBEdit had plugins available as early as 1994, it appears.

For a graphical HTML editor, there was Arachnid, released in 1995.

The first website didn't go up until December 1990 and it wasn't until August of 1991 that the world wide web was a publicly available system.  So, there likely wouldn't be any Mac HTML editing software prior to 1991.  Could BBEdit and its plugins be the oldest text-based HTML editor and Arachnid the oldest WYSIWYG HTML editor?

Or were other applications available prior to either of those?

 

[unity]

I was fond of Adobe PageMill 3.0 back in the day. But I know Netscape had an editor too I used, but I think it was more HTML based. Once I switched to PageMill I never looked back.

 

[Elfen]

PageSpinner was a Shareware/Freeware WYSIWYG editor and Adobe made, like Unity said, "PageMill." They also made "SiteMill" for larger multi-paged websites. SiteMill has drag&drop page for creating links but a mistake in the coding had it make the links absolute to where the page resided on your Mac. Before uploading them to your site, you needed to fix the links to match the webserver or make them relative file links.

 

[CC_333]

Yeah, PageMill 3.0 came with my then new iMac, and I played with it all the time.

In fact, when I discovered the Internet (around 1998-1999), I downloaded pages from Aladdin Systems (Stuffit) and modified them for fun.

I still have some of that old stuff lingering on a dead drive. If I could bring that dead drive back to life (I know which one it is, and I suspect all it needs is a new controller board), I might be able to find some of it.

I also came across PageMill 2.0, which was apparently also released for Windows. I haven't seen any references to PageMill 1, though (I haven't really looked, to be honest).

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[markyb86]

I'm not sure when composer started coming with netscape, but that was a relatively decent wysiwyg html editor at the time.

 

[dcr]

Thanks!

Netscape Composer (released with Netscape Communicator) came out in 1997.

Adobe PageMill 1.0 was released in 1995.  Adobe acquired it when they bought Seneca.  Can't find anything on when Seneca initially released it.

Haven't been able to find an initial release date for PageSpinner.

There was also a Web Weaver Lite but haven't found a release date for that one either.

 

[rsolberg]

HotMeTaL dates back to 1994 and ran on System 6.

 

[rsolberg]

Oops. That should read 'HoTMetaL'.

 

[Cory5412]

It's not the oldest, but I personally have a bit of love for Claris Homepage.

Low End Mac was designed in it until nearly the bitter end when they switched the actual hosting and content management to WordPress.

A few years after that was written, Apple released iWeb, which still runs on Mac OS X 10.11, but which is less flexible than Home Page, which itself is a lot more akin to Dreamweaver (which includes design but note content templates) than iWeb.

 

[shadedream]

I used to develop in Golive Cyberstudio back before Adobe bought (and subsequently killed) it. Apparently it was 1996 originally though... before it I'd used a text editor specifically designed for HTML but no WYSIWYG (though I dont 100% recall the name). BBEdit was too expensive for young me.

 

[dcr]

I used to develop in Golive Cyberstudio back before Adobe bought (and subsequently killed) it. Apparently it was 1996 originally though... before it I'd used a text editor specifically designed for HTML but no WYSIWYG (though I dont 100% recall the name). BBEdit was too expensive for young me.

GoLive CyberStudio was awesome.  I think it was the first software I purchased before completing the demo.  As I recall, I think I downloaded the 30 day demo and wound up buying the full version after a weekend using it.

Before that, I used Arachnid and text editors.  I didn't use BBEdit either.  I think I had the freebie version, but my favorite text editor was SaintEdit.

 

[techknight]

The only thing I used back in the day, was the Geocities WYSIWYG editor. Anyone remember that?