By @Macarlo
Screenshots by NamoCapture

Hi All.
I just tested on my Windows NT4 SP6 Server where I have a Web IDE one of the most recent versions of CoffeeCup HTML Editor, the release 8.1 (the latest is 8.2) in order to evaluate the performance of this popular web authoring tool. Some users that saw my review about web editors requested this test and I sucked the release 8.1 in order to make the illustrated report. But only today May 13 I could realize this task and at this time the new version (8.2) has been released.

 RATING

I tested this one working with it on my principal web site (4,000 HTML pages and 3,000 images) as you can see in the photo above and I verified that this web editor runs slow on Windows NT environment in comparison with Namo, the winner of all tests I performed here on NT4 and on Windows 2000, but CoffeeCup have a series of handicaps that another HTML editor have not.

In the photo above you can see the initial page of CoffeeCup, started just when you run it by the first time. Here is a web editor intuitive and easy, and reliable, offerring a series of options at the click of the mouse as you can see in the photo below:

I noted that CoffeeCup encountered difficulties to load my entire principal web site into the New/Open window (photo below) and this task consumed two minutes (Namo consumes exactly one second for perform this task!) but this problem is just the only I verified testing the version 8.1.

The install process of CoffeeCup is simple and easy: you click the exe file and that is all! In the photo below you can see the install running on my Windows NT Server.

Technical information

The CoffeeCup HTML Editor is a full-featured HTML editor. It includes Expresso FTP for uploading and downloading, an image gallery (with quick-linking images), colorized syntax, automatic image sizing, a line reader, and tips. This program also comes with 30 background images, more than 175 animated GIFs and upwards of 140 Web icon graphics, 10 Graphical Interfaces, 100 JavaScripts, a frame designer, an HTML stripper, and DHTML for extra functionality. You can work on and test multiple pages at once. Other features include two different browser test icons for testing and surfing, an image previewing utility, a sound gallery, online help, project management features, support for HTML server extensions, a form designer, WebTV tag support, and special character insertion.

CoffeeCup have an excellent and complete Help on-line (photo above); using this Help anyone can make his first web page without problems, working directly with HTML code and testing the results with the preview feature built in or checking it with the preferred browser.

Other features include a customizable interface, a quick-start module, a list designer with import functionality, a team of wizards to handle color, hyperlinks, email links, and tables, and more.

CONTACT AUTHOR

CoffeeCup Software

http://www.coffeecup.com
http://www.htmleditor.com

@Macarlo, Inc.
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