The HTML Stylesheet Sourcebook
List of CSS-Aware Sofware

There are already several browsers that support some or all of CSS Level 1, while there are also several document editors that already have implemented support for CSS. The following is a brief summary of some such software. Additional lists of software are found at: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/#software

CSS Parser and Syntax Validator

• CSScheck -- http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
  This is a simple syntax checker that takes, as input a CSS stylesheet, adn that returns a list of possible mistakes (if any). The input stylesheet can be cut and pasted into an HTML form, or it can be passed to the syntax checker via a URL reference.

HTML Editors and Document Management Systems

• Beyond Press 3.0 -- [Commercial; MacOS(Win95/NT to follow)] -- http://www.astrobyte.com/About/BeyondPress3.0Release.html
  Beyond Press 3.0, from Astrobyte, is a QuarkXpress add-on for converting Quark documents into HTML. The new version will also convert standard stylistic features into CSS stylesheets.
  
  
• Cascade -- [Commercial; MacOS] -- http://interaction.in-progress.com/cascade/index
  Cascade, from Media Design In Progress, is a Macintosh-based CSS editor.
  
  
• Homesite Version 2.5 -- http://www.allaire.com/products/homesite/overview.cfm
  Homesite, from Allaire Corp., is an integrated Web site management and document creation system, based on the Allaire Cold Fusion scripting language for building dynamic documents. The system includes an HTML editor an document management tool, and this tool has some support for CSS.
  
  
• HoTaMaLe -- http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/framemaker/exportpi.html
  HoTaMale, from Adobe Inc, is an export filter for Adobe FrameMaker. This filter can export HTML documents, and can convert Framemaker-format styling information into its closest CSS equivalent.
  
  
• HotDog -- [Commercial/Win95/NT] -- http://www.sausage.com/
  HotDog Professional, from Sausage Software, is a popular commercial and shareware HTML editor. The latest version advertises support for CSS, and lets an author create styling as the document is written.
  
  
• HoTMetaL Intranet Publisher (HiP) -- [Commercial; Win95/NT] -- http://www.softquad.com/hip/
  HiP, from SoftQuad Inc., is a sophisticated Intranet Web site development and management system, built on top of SoftQuad's known expertise in SGML. The latest version of HiP has support for CSS, and lets authors create custom style sheets and deliver them with their documents.
  
  
• Interaction -- [Commercial; MacOS] -- http://interaction.in-progress.com/
  Interaction/IP, from Media Design In Progress, is a Macintosh site management tool that encompasses site management as well as the management of chat and other interaction tools. The package also can use CSS to control the look and feel of the pages. This company also makes the Cascade CSS editor.
  
  
• JoyHTML -- http://www.abc.se/~m8974/joyframe.htm
  JoyHTML is a shareware HTML editor, written in Swedish, so that learning how to use the software is at worst an interesting way to learn some Swedish! The editor has built-in controls for adding styling information to documents as they are edited.
  
  
• QuickSite 2.0 -- http://www.deltapoint.com/qsdeved/index.htm
  QuickSite, from DeltaPoint Inc, is an integrated Web site creation and management suite. The package is advertised has having built-in support for cascading stylesheets.
  
  
• SheetStylist -- [Commercial; Win95/NT] -- http://www.tcp.co.uk/~drarh/Stylist/
  SheetStylist is an Active-X Control (it can run as a standalone application) that can create, edit and manage CSS stylesheet collections. Note, however, that the stylesheet creation tool is not much different from a text-editor: it is GUI based, but it does not allow you to do WYSIWYG stylesheet creation.
  
  
• StyleMaker-- [Commercial; Win95/NT] -- http://danere.com/StyleMaker/
  From, the Danare Group, StyleMaker is a Windows 95 tool for creating and testing CSS stylesheets. It is also inexpensive, at only around $30 US.
  
  
• WebMaker -- http://www.harlequin.com/webmaker
  WebMaker, from The Harlequin Group Ltd., is an tool for converting Adobe FrameMaker documents into HTML. The latest version of WebMaker (Version 3.0) has advertised support for CSS in this process--WebMaker will take the styling information in the FrameMaker document and convert it into the closest CSS equivalent.
  
  
• Xanthus iWrite-- [Commercial; Win95/NT, others coming soon] http://www.xanthus.se
  Xanthus iWrite, formerly called Intranet Writer, is an HTML and CSS1-based word processor for Windows 95/NT. It is currently (January 20 1998) available as a Prelease (level 4) and can be downloaded from the above URL.

Translators and Conversion Filters

• W2CSS -- [Non-Commercial; MS Word Macro;Word 8 and highter] -- http://www.g-foods.com/w2css/
  W2Css is a Word 8 (Officd '97) macro package that can convert a Word document into an HTML document, while preserving the layout features and converting them into CSS instructions. This is a 'donationware' product, written by Lewis Gartenberg.
  
  

Browsers and other Viewers

• Amaya -- [Non-Commercial; UNIX] -- http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
  Amaya is the W3C's current testbed software for Web client development. It is a combination of browser and editor, and in both roles has support for some aspects of CSS. It is available for downloading at the above URL.
  
  
• Arena -- [Non-Commercial; GNU License; UNIX] -- http://www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena/  
  Arena was developed at the W3C as a testbed for new CSS and HTML features. The code is now being maintained and developed by Yggdrasil.
  
  
• Emacs-W3 -- [Non-Commercial; GNU License; Win95/3.1/MacOS] -- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html
  This is the GNU Emacs browser, written entirely in elisp -- the Lisp dialect employed by EMACS. This is available for most every platform, including most Unixes, Windows NT/95, AmigaDOS, OS/2, and VMS.
  
  
• Internet Explorer 3 -- [Commercial; Win95/3.1/MacOS] -- http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
  This was the first commercial browser to support CSS. However, it supported a very early version, and is thus incompatible in some ways with the current specifications.
  
  
• Internet Explorer 4 -- [Commercial; Win95/3.1/MacOS] -- http://www.microsoft.com/ie4/
  This is the soon-to-be released upgrade to Internet Explorer 3. This should support virtually all the features of CSS level 1, plus some experimental ones. At present, the support looks better than in Netscape 4 -- fewer bugs, and more supported CSS properties. But, the software is not yet officially released.
  
  
• Lexicon -- [Non-Commercial; Requires perl/tcl/tk] -- http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/b.rosenberg/lex/index.html
  This is an experimental browser written using perl and tcl/tk, and using the CERN Line-mode browser to perform Web accesses. It is designed to test some ideas of logical structural markup -- such as the automatic generation of glossaries from CITE, DFN and VAR elements. It also supports several aspects of CSS.
  
  
• Netscape Navigator 4 -- [Commercial; Win95/3.1/MacOS/UNIX] -- http://www.netscape.com/
  This version supports much of the CSS specification, including CSS positioning. However, there are several annoying bugs in its behavior.