HyperEdit
{{Short description|Mac OS X application for editing HTML}}
{{Infobox software|
name = Whisk
| logo = Image:HyperEdit.png
| screenshot = Image:HyperEdit screenshot.png
| caption = HyperEdit running on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
| developer = Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult Co.
| released = {{Start date and age|2003|07|23}}{{cite web |last1=Absous |first1=Vincent |title=Tumult HyperEdit s'appuie sur Safari |url=https://www.macg.co/2003/07/tumult-hyperedit-sappuie-sur-safari-30266 |website=MacGeneration |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=fr |date=24 July 2003}}
| latest_release_version = 2.6.1
| latest_release_date = October 25, 2022{{cite web |last1=Deutsch |first1=Jonathan |title=Version History |url=https://tumult.com/whisk/documentation/v2/version-history.html#_2-6-0 |website=tumult.com |access-date=1 June 2023}}
| programming language = Objective-C
| operating_system = macOS
| genre = HTML editor
| license = Shareware
| website = {{URL|https://tumult.com/whisk/}}
}}
Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.{{cite magazine |last1=Ellis |first1=Robert |title=60 Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All) |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=14690714&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |magazine=Macworld |volume=21 |issue=11 |access-date=1 June 2023 |pages=56–67 |date=November 2004}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Arthur |first1=Charles |title=Charles Arthur on technology |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/charles-arthur-on-technology-5355133.html |website=The Independent |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en |date=21 January 2004}} French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003.{{cite web |last1=Furno |first1=Nicolas |title=Éditeur HTML : seize ans après, HyperEdit de retour sous un nouveau nom |url=https://www.macg.co/logiciels/2020/09/editeur-html-seize-ans-apres-hyperedit-de-retour-sous-un-nouveau-nom-116733 |website=MacGeneration |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=fr |date=28 September 2020}} HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine.{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Peter |title=HyperEdit HTML/PHP editor improves Leopard support |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/190374/hyperedit-2.html |website=Macworld |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en}} It was initially released as donationware.
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.
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.{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Brad |date=May 16, 2004 |title=HyperEdit displays HTML code changes in real-time |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/171047/hyperedit.html |website=Macworld |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en}}
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.
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. 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.{{cite web |last1=Arthur |first1=Charles |title=Boot up: Apple's US win, Microsoft v EC numbers, phone switchers and more |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/mar/07/technology-links-newsbucket |website=The Guardian |access-date=1 June 2023 |date=7 March 2013}}
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