| Whisk | |
| Developer: | Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult Co. |
| Released: | [1] |
| Latest Release Version: | 2.6.1 |
| Latest Release Date: | October 25, 2022[2] |
| Programming Language: | Objective-C |
| Operating System: | macOS |
| Genre: | HTML editor |
| License: | Shareware |
Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.[3]
In 2003, while studying computer science at Indiana's Purdue University, Jonathan Deutsch wrote HyperEdit to create a live HTML editor that would remove the need to save an HTML file and reload it in a browser to test each change.[4] French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003.[5] HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine.[4] [6] It was initially released as donationware.[4]
HyperEdit was renamed to whisk with the release of version 2.0. Whisk was released as shareware with a free trial, and some of its code was taken from Deutsch's "Hype" web animation application.[5]
The software is primarily targeted at web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. It offers customizable syntax highlighting for these web languages.[3] [7]
Its features include W3C validation (which underlines mistakes in red), a JavaScript debugger, code snippets, and a real-time preview in the application's right pane.[3]
Macworld Robert Ellis rated HyperEdit 4.5 mice out of 5, praising its live previewing and describing it as a lower-cost, less-bloated alternative to Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver.[3] Charles Arthur also praised it in The Independent and The Guardian, saying that its live preview turned a normally "miserable task" into something "interactive, fun, and much quicker". By 2004, Tucows rated it as the second-best HTML editor, ahead of Dreamweaver.[4] [8]