@Asad : thanks for the suggestions. Of course the order of Google answers varies from one occurrence of a request to the next. What I was looking for (and found some of in the now unavailable discussion ), was the opinion of people who had actually used those tools.

OK, point taken. I understand you want to keep the site from wandering into something messy and uncontrollable. I still don't know where to find answers to the original question (not asked by me, incidentally). A google search to "jquery ide" turned up on top with another Stackoverflow post asking a very similar question (not yet rooted out for bad form...)

"A donkey does not bump into the same stone twice" - I wasn't the author of the first question, I was just a dude looking for an answer to that question

"What does it have that google.com/search?q=jquery+ide doesn't have?" - I followed that link and the first item to appear was a link to ... StackOverflow, a post from someone asking basically the same question...