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Posted by Bob on 04/24/06 07:43
dorayme wrote:
> In article <e2cgic$uhg$0@pita.alt.net>, Bob <bob@bob.org> wrote:
>
>> What I am interested in is not a WYSIWYG application but something like
>> the old Hot Dog Pro (I think). Sometimes I have mistakes in my HTML like
>> a tag opened and not closed or a tag closed with no opening tag, or a
>> tag that is written slightly incorrectly (one character missing or in
>> the wrong place). I would like to be able to run my HTML through the
>> application and have the program fix tag typos for me. Are there any
>> programs like that out there. Notepad++ don't cut it, cuz it does not
>> find errors for me.
>
> In BBedit, for a Mac, you just press a keyboard command and it
> checks the doc in no time at all and lists the errors according
> to the doctype. In free Mac editors like the old BBEdit Lite, or
> its modern equivalent, Textwrangler, you can put in plugins like
> Tidy. You are right to want a facility like this. In the Firefox
> (Mac or PC) browser there are extensions you can install that
> make this process of checking reasonable easy on line but it is
> not as direct and therefore as handy as. If you are on broadband,
> it is probably pretty good though.
It works fine, but it's not that easy to check a local file. I guess I
could just rename it .html and then load it up in FF and have it run
Tidy on it, but it seems like a hassle.
I just figured out that Homesite and Dreamweaver also have something
like this.
Tidy works pretty good on broadband, but there are some scripts that the
prog uses to run and sometimes the script clogs up FF and its hard to
run Tidy on the page. Plus the extension really dislikes pages with tons
of errors on them, like say over 1,000 errors, esp 20,000 errors or so.
Those pages almost choke the extension.
In addition, for a novice HTML user like myself, the descriptions of the
errors are not always easy to understand. After you use it for a while
and learn more HTML and esp how to interpret the often-obtuse error
messages, you can use it a lot better. Plus, sometimes when Tidy "cleans
up" the HTML, the "cleaned version" of the page is somewhat broken,
visually-wise, so then I just leave the "errors" in.
All in all, it's one of the coolest FF extensions out there.
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