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I love my Mac for editing web sites. I can easily view source in my favourite text editor, and steal or modify bits of HTML, CSS and Javascript. If I'm running Mac OS 9, that is. Mac OS X obviously has more (and better) browsers, except for the fact that none of them offer the choice of viewing source in an external editor. Safari pops up a crappy, small window with no choice of typeface and no syntax colouring. Camino pops open a new tab - even if you don't like tabs - which does have syntax colouring, but which also uses a horrible italic in some places. It also doesn't soft wrap. IE 5 used to offer external editor support on the Mac OS, but now it just dumps the file to the desktop without opening it in the editor. I'm not sure about the other browsers, but I hate them already enough as it is. This isn't a new rant, and thus there are workarounds using AppleScript: http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0103b.shtml#viewy2 http://www.webgraph.com/usability/applescripts/ Point is, though, that it's really unnatural to switch to the editor to view source; that's what the browser should do for you. You could bind a global key combo (if you buy shareware) or us the script menu (but then you have to mouse your way into it). Blurgh. I hate Mac OS X, and the way it's encouraged apps to remove features that used to mean I worked well. -- :: paul :: compiles with canadian cs1471 protocol
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