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Arachnophilia
Developer(s)Paul Lutus
Initial release14 November 1996; 27 years ago (1996-11-14)[1]
Stable release
5.5.2953[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 29 October 2020
Written inJava
PlatformJava SE
SizeApprox. 2.7 MB
TypeHTML editor
License2018: GPL-2.0-or-later[a]
2011: LGPL-2.1-or-later[b]
Websitearachnoid.com/arachnophilia

Arachnophilia is a source code editor written in Java by Paul Lutus.[4] It is the successor to another HTML editor, WebThing. The name Arachnophilia comes from the term meaning "love of spiders", a metaphor for the task of building on the World Wide Web.

Arachnophilia is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License.

History

Once written as a Windows application, the program was rewritten by Lutus in Java as part of his boycott against Microsoft and its product activation features for Windows XP. Arachnophilia requires the Java 2 runtime environment, release 1.5 or later.

The program was licensed as Careware software, then as LGPL-2.1-or-later in 2011, and now as GPL-2.0-or-later since 2018 with the source available on the website.[5][3]

Features

The program can import and convert to HTML various RTF documents, tables and outlines from any Windows 95 (and above) compliant application. The output of the code can be previewed in up to six different web browsers. It supports CGI, frames and other languages beside HTML, for instance PHP, Perl, C++, Java, and JavaScript development.

Other features include:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ GPL-2.0-or-later since 2018-04-09.[3]
  2. ^ LGPL-2.1-or-later from 2011-09-24 until 2018-04-08.[3]

References

  1. ^ Lutus, Paul. "Arachnophilia Revision History Archive". Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Arachnophilia Revision History".
  3. ^ a b c "Arachnophilia Revisions History". Archived from the original on 2022-04-15.
  4. ^ "Paul Lutus". 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  5. ^ "The CareWare Idea". Retrieved March 7, 2011.

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