How Does BBEdit 5 Suck Less?
For starters, Bare Bones completely revamped the HTML authoring suite from the ground up. While a lot of the old tools will seem familiar, and some perform identically, there are a number of welcome additions to the Markup Menu and likewise the HTML Palette. The syntax checker is now far more sophisticated and can detect malformed HTML. It is also updated for HTML 4.0. Bare Bones chose to base the syntax checker on SGML (the language which defines how markup languages, such as HTML, are formatted) which brings forth several advantages in terms of “intelligent” syntax checking. A new Tag Maker function is another example of the new “intelligent” context sensitive capabilities in BBEdit 5. Simply place the insertion point at any given point in an HTML document (or make a selection using the cursor) and select Tag Maker from the Markup menu and a list of appropriate tags will appear. For example,
