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Posted by dorayme on 12/04/05 04:42
> From: Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net>
> On Windows, I use Notepad to create HTML from scratch.
>
> Today my daughter asked me what to use on a Mac. Apparently she has
> tried several tools, but has not been able to get any to work. As I
> understand her problem, she can create text files, but they continue to
> be recognized as only text files, even if given an .html extension. I
> vaguely recall that Mac uses a 'signature' or something other than the
> file extension to define the type of a file, but...
>
> Can anyone identify a standard (part of an Apple iBook preload) editor
> that can be used to create HTML files? If there's a trick to doing so,
> please describe the details, as I have no system with which to experiment.
>
Source code /is/ just text. And it does not matter what you
append on a Mac name in regard to what program it will open in;
double clicking will open the file according to the creator and
file type (this is "under the bonnet" and you need to read up on
this stuff, if you really want to know more ask further... I
will say this here: you /could/ get one of the many facilities
for changing the type of the text file so that it then "becomes"
an IE file or a Mozilla or iCab or Safari or Opera or whatever.
Then it will open in the specified browser. But I would not
advise this. The point about the source text is that it is
independent of any particular browser. Leave it that way! It is
then easy to modify and available in the text editor program you
prefer to work in.
In the meantime your daughter will do this: She will create a
text file (Simpletext or whatever will do) and append the .html
after it (this is for a different purpose to /merely/ opening
the file) and drag the file with the mouse over any open browser
window or any browser app icon. Or (more bothersome) open a
browser and use file/open and then find the text file concerned
and it will express itself as a website page in the browser.
The best text edtor in my opinion for this sort of work is
BBEdit or its descendants from Barebones. But Simple Text or
whatever is the simple text editor on your daughter's Mac should
be ok.
-- dorayme
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