Question

What are authoring tools? List different types of authoring tools.

Answer 1

Answer:

Authoring tools are also known as Authorware.

Explanation:

Authoring tools are the tools that helps in linking several objects in an application development environment. Authoring tools use a scripting to merger and combine all the objects thatw will finally create an application.

HTML Editors for HTML Editing

Software for editing source code.

Debugging tools

Scripting libraries

Software for mobile web applications

Email Clients

Multimedia Authoring Tools

Software for Live Collaborations

Content Management Systems  

Answer 2

Authoring tools:

• Authoring tools are tools or applications in which we can add or edit any digital content which can be a mixture of text, audio, video, images, multimedia, animation, etc.

Types of authoring tools are as follows:

1. Card and page-based tools: Elements are organized like a card or the ages of a book. (Example: HyperCard).  
2. Icon based or event-driven tools: Events are organized as a flowchart. (Example: Author ware).
3. Time-based tools: Used in any messaging system for where time is the critical thing. (Example: Adobe Directors).