Re: Mac OS X browser view source

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mac OS X browser view source
Date: 17:31 on 23 Aug 2003
> 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.

You've forgotten how to use cut-and-paste?

The only browser I use that brings up an external editor, which 90% of the
time is just another program to chew up memory, is Opera on Windows.

I hate it. Why bring up an editor on a document that I can't modify, or
save it to some worthless randomly-named file I can't keep track of. The
"View Source" browser lets me do everything I need, without losing track
of the fact that I *am* only looking at a snapshot and make changes to
the wrong document.

> Point is, though, that it's really unnatural to switch to the editor 
> to view source;

That's what I think. I'm not editing, I'm browsing. If you want to open in an
editor, use Mozilla. Select "File -> Edit Page" and it'll toss you into
Composer which is one of the better HTML editors I've ever used.

> I hate Mac OS X, and the way it's encouraged apps to remove features 
> that used to mean I worked well.

Then stick with OS 9.

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