Developer(s) | Alexandre Hoyau, Pierre Teissière, Pol Goasdoué, founders |
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Stable release | v2.7.30 / April 19, 2023; 19 months ago (2023-04-19) |
Repository | github |
Operating system | Web app, Windows, macOS, Linux |
Type | Website builder |
License | AGPL |
Website | www |
Silex is a free WYSIWYG website builder, that can be used directly in a browser or run offline as a it also provides cross-platform application version. The application includes a drag and drop interface to edit a website, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.
History
- Founded in 2003 by Alex Hoyau, Pol Goasdoué and Pierre Teissière. The project is oriented towards video and cross media.
- In 2005, the version v0-6 is presented at the WWDC2005 in Cupertino California. Apple is interested in Flash capacity to compete with their QuickTime plug-in. Macromedia has just been acquired by Adobe, Apple's main partner.
- In 2006, the program was presented in several conferences at La Villette and won a challenge organized by Dauphine high school with INRIA - French National institute for research in computer science and control. The program at this time was mainly used for freelancers small projects.
- In 2007, Silex source code officially released as open source
- In 2008, Silex was among the 100 first Open Source projects on SourceForge. Silex v1 is released.
- In 2009, Silex was project of the month on SourceForge. The program was presented Silex at several French conference: Futur en Seine, Les Trophées du Libre, Pas sage en Seine, Wikiplaza
- In 2010, the team members formalized their cooperation by creating a non profit organization for promotion, deployment support, and development of open source software projects related to Silex and Open Source Flash. The organization became the official maintainer of AMFPHP, a mature communautary project.
- In 2012, Silex has reached the 100.000 downloads. And the team has made a dedicated version for HTML, the html5 editor, which was downloaded 1000 times on the first month.
- In 2013, the team, led by Alex Hoyau started from scratch and build Silex V2 with Javascript, Node.js and more modern technologies than the previous version.
- In 2016, Silex Labs foundation has set up a crowd funding campaign to give Silex international concern by creating a multilingual documentation and tutorials, and to create free templates to facilitate the creation of a website, and to develop a "responsive editor" to make it possible to optimize the mobile version of websites.
Features
- WYSIWYG environment to edit a publication with drag and drop
- HTML, CSS and Javascript code editors included
- Suitable for prototyping
- Web based (can be installed locally on a web server) or as a portable offline app
- Free templates and plugins
- File browser integration with GitHub, Dropbox, FTP, WebDAV, and SFTP
- Easy options for responsive element design
- Easy switch between desktop and mobile view
References
- "Silex v2.0 - Part 1, the vision". Silex Labs (in French). 3 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Silex v2.0 - Part 2, what is it exactly?". Silex Labs (in French). 12 April 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM". Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Silex, live web creation - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "Stat-is-stuck - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "SourceForge Community Blog | Project of the Month, June 2009". sourceforge.net. 31 May 2009. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "Silex on the scene - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "Soissons pour les nuls *** Soissons for Dummies". Silex Labs (in French). 5 June 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Pas sage en Seine : Maintenant ! *** Workshop NOW !". Silex Labs (in French). 4 June 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Video Wikiplaza - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "About". Silex Labs (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Flash remoting for PHP: A responsive Client-Server Architecture for the Web". amfphp.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "New record for Silex !". Silex Labs (in French). 7 August 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "杠杆交易平台可信吗|杠杆交易原理|股票100倍杠杆t加0平台". www.html5-editor.org. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- "Silex launches a crowdfunding campaign. - Templamatic". www.templamatic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
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- "Build your own website". Monday, April 27, 2020