TopStyle

TopStyle was a // and (IDE) for Windows developed by Nick Bradbury and later maintained by Stefan van As. The editor was code-centric rather than WYSIWYG, with integrated support for and previews generated by the ,  , or Apple's  s. A "Lite" version of TopStyle 2.0 was bundled with JRun Studio, which itself was based on Macromedia HomeSite, an earlier editor also created by Bradbury. The "Lite" version was also bundled with Homesite and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

Features
TopStyle supported HTML, XHTML, and CSS editing in various revisions, along with validation checking for standards and browser compatibility issues. Checking optionally covered a variety of levels, such as a strict CSS specifications, to issues on a wide variety of browsers. This style checker feature provided detailed warning messages allowing the user to visually see if parts of HTML or CSS code would be incompatible with a particular browser.

The software also supported converting deprecated HTML styling to CSS code, converting HTML code to valid XHTML, and checking for orphaned code or pages. was supported for PHP, ASP, CFML, CSS, XHTML, HTML, JavaScript, and VBScript.

TopStyle integrated with, W3C's validation services, and the Windows application. TopStyle 4 could use CSE HTML Validator to check links. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX included an extension which allowed TopStyle to be used as a dedicated CSS editor.

Product history
TopStyle was created by Nick Bradbury, who previously created HomeSite in 1996. HomeSite was acquired by Allaire in March 1997, by Macromedia in 2001, and finally by Adobe Systems in 2005. Bradbury left the company to found Bradbury Software in 2003 and created the editor TopStyle and a titled. Bradbury Software was acquired by in May 2005. Independent software developer Stefan van As acquired TopStyle in December 2008.

Release history

 * TopStyle 1.0 was released by Bradsoft in 1999.


 * TopStyle 2.0 was released electronically by Bradsoft in 2000. A "Lite" version (which could only open one file at a time) was included with JRun Studio.


 * TopStyle 3.0 was released by Bradsoft in 2002.




 * TopStyle 3.5 was released on October 15, 2007 (version 3.5.0.9). New features included better support for Windows Vista and browsers released since TopStyle 3.12 (Safari 2, IE7, Firefox 2, Opera 9), Box Spy (tool that shows padding/margins of boxes in the preview window), and many more including many bug fixes and improvements.


 * TopStyle 4 was released on May 31, 2009. New features included (UTF-8) unicode support, live FTP editing, support for browsers released since TopStyle 3.5 (IE8, Firefox 3, Safari 3, and Safari 4), Script Insight for ASP + PHP + ColdFusion, support for iPhone (and iPod touch) webapp development, support for HTML 5, IE8 document compatibility, and many more including many bug fixes and improvements.


 * TopStyle 5 was released on November 30, 2012, with support for . Further development was discontinued in 2016.