What is SimplyHTML?

As shortly described in chapter 'About the SimplyHTML project ', SimplyHTML is an application for text processing on the basis of HTML documents formatted with CSS. It combines functionality of a word processor with the standards of HTML and CSS.

Usage of the HTML and CSS standard for documents created with SimplyHTML opens a wide variety of usage possibilities because many other applications 'understand' and use HTML and CSS such as

- web browsers
- other text processors
- presentation and graphics software

Features

SimplyHTML features the following functionality

- opens, maintains and saves documents in HTML and CSS format
- any number of documents can be opened at the same time and are displayed in a tabbed pane
- formatting of paragraph styles
- creation of own named styles for paragraphs
- formatting of font attributes on character level
- rich table formatting
- list formatting
- insertion and formatting of JPEG and GIF images
- creation and manipulation of links and link anchors
- drag and drop in the editor pane
- cut and paste for styled HTML text
- cascading undo/redo
- plug-in facility for extension of SimplyHTML
- support of Java Web Start for easy deployment
- editor for HTML code with syntax highlighting

See 'Planned development stages' for additional features to be present in future.

Differences of HTML and CSS in various environments

SimplyHTML tries to consequently adhere to HTML and CSS standards. However, there are discrepancies over different environments, which sometimes can be compensated, sometimes only partly or not at all. Please see chapter ' Discrepancies in HTML and CSS rendering' on that subject too.