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7 Awesome Free Syntax Highlighters – To Enhance User Readability

Last updated on by Gabriel Livan

According to WikiPedia:

Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that display text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature eases writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as both structures and syntax errors are visually distinct. Highlighting does not affect the meaning of the text itself; it’s made only for human readers/editors.

SyntaxHighlighter 2.0 is one of the most popular fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript. Alex Gorbatchev started this project in 2004 and since then has gained a lot of acceptance. Version 2.0 comes with a near complete rewrite, clean up, optimization, standard compliance and new features.

SyntaxHighlighter

Features include:

  • Easy to setup
  • Over 20 syntax brushes available (PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML etc.)
  • You can easily change the font size in the highlighted elements without having to mess around with additional CSS.
  • Allows you to force highlighted elements on the page to be collapsed by default.
  • Allows you to turn detection of links in the highlighted element on and off. If the option is turned off, URLs won’t be clickable.
  • Allows you to turn line wrapping feature on and off.

GeSHI is a Generic Syntax Highlighter that aims to be a simple but powerful highlighting class. Initially, it was started as an idea to create a generic syntax highlighter for the phpBB forum system, but has been generalized to this project.

geshi-code

Features include:

  • Support for a wide range of popular languages
  • Easy to add a new language for highlighting
  • Highly customisable output formats

GeSHi aims to do this all as quickly as possible. Many customisable features of GeSHi facilitate speed increases, and you can easily find a balance between the amount of highlighting done and the speed in which it is done.

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Baseline CSS Framework: A “Real” Baseline Grid on the Web

Last updated on by Gabriel Livan

Baseline is a free to use CSS (Designer) Framework useful to easily develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the default browser behavior. It builds a basic typographic layout (includes style for HTML forms & new HTML 5 elements) and a simple grid system. A nice feature of this designer framework is the fact that is uses the font metrics to line up headlines, paragraphs, form labels and any other major elements on the page baseline, creating a harmonious layout.

baseline-css-framework

Baseline can be used in many different ways. Use the reset.css and base.css file as a starting point, include the type.css for typographic control or include all files to have a complete foundation to start your web project.

Free, Fast, Professional & Easy to Use WYSIWYG Editor: CKEditor

Last updated on by Gabriel Livan

If you need a way to manage your web content easily then the new CKEditor is definitively a choice to consider. This is a WYSIWYG editor that brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. CKEditor is ideal for developers indented to provide easy and powerful solutions to their users.

IMB, Oracle and Adobe are only a few of the big companies that use this fully functional, flexible, fast, innovative, smart & user friendly WYSIWYG editor.

ckeditor

End User Features include:

  • Formatting (Basic &Advanced Styling, Real Block-quoting, Colors, Advanced Paste from Word, Advanced Linking, E-mail Linking)
  • User Interface (Visual Link Anchors, Maximize, Visible Blocks, Resizable, Right to Left Interface, Elements Selector, Find & Replace)
  • Rich Content (Images, Flash Content, Easy Tables, Smiles, Print Breaks, Templates, Form Creation Tools)
  • Usability (Interface Usability, Strong Accessibility, Spell Check as You Type, Keyboard Navigable, TAB Key Friendly, Intuitive Context Menu, Safely Undo)

Developer features include:

  • Customization (Rich JavaScript API, Plugin Based, Customizable & Extensible, Customizable Interface Color, Total Toolbar Control, Precise ENTER Control)
  • Easy Integration (AJAX Ready, Easy Textarea Replacement, Static Elements Replacement, Easy to Upgrade, TAB Index Support, On Demand Loading, Extremely Fast Loading, Strong Browser Compatibility, Library Collision Safe)
  • Styles (Total Styles Control, Styling with Class, Font Settings, Colors Control, Templates)
  • User Interface (Skins, UI Languages, UI Language Auto Detection, )
  • Contents Control (Quality XHTML Output, Output Code Formatting, Standards and Quirks Contents, RTL Contents Support, Contents in any language, Content Parsing)

Our CKEditor is not only functional, flexible and fast but also innovative, smart and user friendly. Our new version is based in many cases on Your opinions and suggestions. Therefore the new CKEditor version 3.0 is a milestone better than the older one.

Maintain the Websites of Your Clients with JCore

Last updated on by Gabriel Livan

jcore

JCore is a multi site CMS build especially for webmasters (using the well known LAMP environment) who have to maintain multiple websites for their clients and need to: keep the source codes up to dates & easily fix bugs for all clients at once. This Multisite CMS comes with 2 systems:

  • jCore Server – Holds all the libraries and modules you can build on
  • jCore Client – The stripped version of the core system without any libraries as it uses the ones from the core.

Features include:

  • Dynamic Web 2.0 Layout
  • Multilanguage Support
  • Multiple Menus
  • Content Management
  • Content Codes
  • Members Management
  • Custom Maintenance Text

The main thing about jcore is that it is written from 0 which should make developer’s life easier to understand the coding and extend them.

Filed Under: PHP

Manage your Personal To-Do List in AJAX-Style using myTinyTodo

Last updated on by Gabriel Livan

My Tiny Todolist is a really cool, simple and easy to use AJAX-based task management script written in PHP5 and JQuery UI by developer Max Pozdeev. Uses either MySQL Database or SQLite for storing the data.

Features include:

  • Task notes
  • Tags (and tag cloud)
  • Priority (-1, 0, +1, +2)
  • Sort tasks by priority, due date; also the tasks order can be sorted using “drag-and-drop”
  • Search
  • Password Protection

myTinyTodo