Aptana studio, is a professional, open source web IDE development tool for for Web 2.0 and Ajax for use with programming languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python.

Aptana studio is developed based on Javascript, which has an easy and simple user interface to help your coding and web design task. Meanwhile, it support for HTML, DOM, and CSS with code-completion, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notification and integrated documentation. Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to be extended to support Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Perl[1], Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime).

The “Code Assist” (code completion) features is a context related help showing possible java-script functions and parameters, html and css tags. It also tells you which of these are available in different browsers so that you can easily make sure you code will work for all users. It’s strength is java-script and it comes with an integrated java-script debugging – all of this make Aptana an excellent choice for ajax development.

Through the embedded browser you can see a preview of you design and try out it’s functionality. When you have verified your design it can be synchronized to your web server using either ftp or secure ftp (sftp). Besides being available for all major platforms – Aptana can also be installed as a plug-in to eclipse.

The Aptana Studio Web IDE Development features:

• Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
• Error and warning notification for your code
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Cross-platform support ( Windows, Linux and Macs )

My Note

i like the aptana since the Javascript Web IDE has javascript reference and ajax library helping me develop and learning the code. Plus more clear explaination on the syntax and function usage.

Aptana is worth for downloading if you are web developer. meanwhile, This web IDE development application is totally free

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