Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following 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
- Free and open source. (Source available soon)
Aptana seems to be a very powerfull IDE for Javascript (finally!!!). The biggest features is the Integrated documentation, merged with a “suggestions-system” that indicate standard and non standard tags and attributes (indicating the browser compatibility with icons). A screenshot follows:
I suggest to take a look to its screencasts.
Aptana its available standalone (running on Win, MacOSX, Linux) and as Eclipse plugin (it’s developed over the Eclipse SDK).