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jld · Mar 7, 2004, 08:25 PM

Does an application come with Panther that will let me write raw html? Text edit seems to add a lot of formatting information that gets displayed in safari as garbage, and wordedit actually shows the file as a webpage. Where is the simplest text editor.

waffffffle · Mar 7, 2004, 08:29 PM

TextEdit. Edit as plain text and not rich text and you've got it. I use SubEthaEdit though, its a great program.

Webscreamer · Mar 7, 2004, 10:13 PM

BBEdit

quietjim · Mar 7, 2004, 10:28 PM

I use skEdit for editing html/xhtml. It produces straight text (TextEdit produces RTF which is why you are having trouble, does code completion and can also edit php etc. It has a builtin preview function that uses Safari and it can do FTP (I don't use this but I assume it works). Cost is $20, it's a real deal. Match it up with CSSEdit ($24.95) and you have a pretty complete suite that's easy to use, reliable and cheap. Add in the Gimp or GraphicConverter and you cana have a fairly complete web development set up for under $100.

quietjim · Mar 7, 2004, 10:29 PM

Forgot to mention: I have no connection with any of these companies or programs, I just use them and recommend them.

Moonray · Mar 7, 2004, 10:42 PM

Again:

TextEdit can create and edit plain text files very well, you just need to turn that option on!

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Catfish_Man · Mar 7, 2004, 10:48 PM

Subethaedit. Built in web preview as well.

Krusty · Mar 7, 2004, 11:45 PM

BBEdit and subethaedit are fine editors and can handle syntax for a variety of languages. But for a straight up this-was-made-for-html sorta thing, TacoHTMLEdit is the hands-down winner, IMHO. Like quietjim, I use it with CSSEdit and GraphicConverter (or occasionally PhotoStudioX .. which was a free download for .mac members). The only thing I would add to his list would be GIFfun ... a very nice little freeware front end for whirlgif that lets you create animated gifs very quickly from many different picture file types.

edit: just took a look at skEdit. Appears to be a lot more powerful than TacoHTMLedit .. but then again,the Taco is free

WJMoore · Mar 8, 2004, 12:01 AM

Originally posted by Catfish_Man:
Subethaedit. Built in web preview as well.

I second that recommendation. SubEthaEdit is great. Syntax highlighting, built-in web preview and it's free!

wataru · Mar 8, 2004, 12:15 AM

I use and love Taco HTML Edit.

Diggory Laycock · Mar 8, 2004, 05:51 AM

SubEthaEdit

Chris Grande · Mar 8, 2004, 11:16 AM

Another vote for SubEthaEdit...and of course CSSEdit for CSS

theolein · Mar 8, 2004, 11:31 PM

Well, for a fair amount of stuff I use plain old vim (open the terminal and type "vim" and press enter). I found vim, once one has learned the basics, to be extremely fast and very flexible. Not only does it offer just about every language syntax highlighting that I could possibly think of, but some of the features such as repeating the last action with the . key etc make it very useful. Another plus side in knowing the basic vi commands is that vi works and is found on every single unix like system out there, which means that if you're ever on a bare bones Linux server someday and need to quickly edit some file, vi will always work and be there.

The down side is that it is of course command line based and requires fairly constant use to keep from forgetting how it works.

cpac · Mar 9, 2004, 01:19 AM

though admittedly I don't code much HTML,

I like the source editor in OmniWeb

I believe some of the mozilla variants also have their own source editors.

voodoo · Mar 9, 2004, 01:58 AM

Yes the Mozilla app has a built in 'composer' with plain text editing html and live preview. Neat, simple and powerful.

chris01 · Mar 9, 2004, 04:15 AM

BBEdit. I used it for years. Never breaks. Nice features.

trash80 · Mar 9, 2004, 04:51 AM

just to be different

Text Wrangler