XML Notepad 2007 is themed around the same kind of just-the-text-ma'am simplicity of Windows' Notepad, but does add relevant features for markup language hacking.

Google Gears developer Aaron Boodman put together a simple offline/online web-based notepad application called GearPad. Sign up for a free account at GearPad, which is simply a big text box for ...

Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text.

A Notepad file can only be 16,000 bytes long–a tad over 3,000 words. So once one fills up, you just start another.

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.