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BlueGriffon was a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. It is based on the discontinued Nvu editor, which in turn is based on the Composer component of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was previously known as Netscape Composer, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to Netscape Communicator. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It ran on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Vinony's link graph records 79 inbound references to BlueGriffon, and connects out to Mozilla Composer, Cascading Style Sheets and Visual Studio.

It sits within the topics Cross-platform software, Free HTML editors and Linux text-related software.

Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Software.name
BlueGriffon
Software.logo
150px
Software.screenshot
File:BlueGriffon main window.png
Software.developer
Daniel Glazman
Software.programming language
C/C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL
Software.operating system
Microsoft WindowsmacOSLinux
Software.platform
Cross-platform
Software.language count
20
Software.language
English (USA), Czech, German, Spanish (Castellano), Finnish, French (France), Galician, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hungarian, Serbian.
Software.discontinued
yes
Software.genre
HTML editor
Software.license
MPL-2.0Proprietary license for most add-ons

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.bluegriffon.org
Image
Faenza-bluegriffon.svg
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Commons category
BlueGriffon
software version identifier
3.1
inception
2008-00-00
source code repository URL
github.com/therealglazou/bluegriffon
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BlueGriffon was a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. It is based on the discontinued Nvu editor, which in turn is based on the Composer component of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was previously known as Netscape Composer, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to Netscape Communicator. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It ran on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.

BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko. BlueGriffon also includes SVG-edit, an XUL-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BlueGriffon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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