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Browser Compatibility - All browsers are different. If your HTML is not supported by certain browsers, users of those browsers will have difficulty viewing your site.
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Run 5 Critical Tests. Keep your html programming well-tuned
* Link Check - find dead links
* HTML Check - spot HTML errors
* Browser Compatibility Check - find unsupported HTML tags
* Load Time Check - find slow pages
* Spell Check - catch spelling errors
I use BBEdit or PageSpinner to edit HTML files for the several web sites with which I'm involved as web master. HTML is simply text, and doesn't become anything other than that until it's interpreted by your web browser, which then draws the nice bold headings, and inserts the graphics where they belong and so on. Creating this text code that runs in your web browser is a form of programming. And that is (mostly) what people do with text editors -- they program. But they also write text -- what a surprise! I'm using BBEdit right now to write this column. Although I usually create documents in AppleWorks
Not surprisingly, the creators of text editors know this and provide all sorts of tools and add-ons and plug-ins that make the life of a programmer or author easier and more productive. The good folks at Bare Bones are no exception. To even list all the features BBEdit provides would likely fill up the entire website, so I'll just mention those I use most often and let you drop in to the BB web site to get all the rest. Since I don't program for anything but the web, using only HTML and its ilk, and JavaScript, I'll just mention in passing that BBEdit integrates with CodeWarrior, Dreamweaver, ToolServer or SourceServer, TeXtures and LaTeX; can act as the editor for MPW, the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop; and can use as references to all this the THINK reference, Toolbox Assistant, Obiwan or MPW 411. Since I don't know a lot more than that about these capabilities, you'll need to ask others for their opinions if that's the kind of thing in which you're interested. enjoy my site
(HURRICANEINTOSH)TM recommends using current versions of | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 | Only for this site. | Netscape Navigator / Communicator all SUCK!
Believe me, if you're doing Mac programming, especially if you're creating and maintaining web sites on a Mac, you need BBEdit. It's that simple.