Arachnophilia is a popular text-based HTML editor written in Java by Paul Lutus. It is known to be a successor to another HTML editor WebThing. The program is licensed as a Careware type of software. The program's name comes from the term meaning "love of spiders."

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 products. To work, Arachnophilia requires the Java 2 runtime environment, release 1.4 or better installed.

Features

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

Other features include:

multiple-document interface

user-customizable toolbars

full drag and drop support

global search and replace

built-in FTP client

automatic uploading of files

user-defined templates