In article <diK_f.464$ZW3.112@dukeread04>,
Timothy Larson <th*********@cox.net> wrote:
ChitownE wrote: Just made The Switch to a Mac and am loving it, but haven't gotten
comfortable with my web authoring setup just yet.
For Mac web developers, what are your favorite tools/utilities for CSS
and XHTML authoring? Many have recommended TextMate as a solid editor
which I downloaded and like pretty well, but haven't found the perfect
syntax highlighting theme yet. Any thoughts there as well?
Allan Odgaard's TextMate seems a very comprehensive programmer's editor.
However it does some things in a different manner to most Macintosh
programs. I suspect someone who uses only a Macintosh may find that a
disadvantage. Since you have just switched, it may not matter.
You probably also brought over with you Nvu, and Firefox (with the
extensions for web creators). Both work well on Macintosh.
TextWrangler has support for quite a few languages, and it's free.
However TextWrangler is not specifically a HTML editor. BBEdit, from
the same company, but fairly expensive, has more extensive HTML support.
Although these two editors are often mentioned for HTML by Macintosh
users, I am trending away from them. My reasoning is that both editors
have their roots well in the past (which may be why they are mentioned
so often, by people who have used them for many versions). They both do
all their own support infrastructure, rather than levering on the now
extensive text handling support included within OS X as most Cocoa
applications do.
Perhaps you should look instead at HTML editors that start with the free
example TextEdit that is included with OS X. The source code for this
comes with OS X. All such editors have the advantage that when OS X
text support improves, the editor partakes of the improvement, usually
without updating the editor. In particular, each such editor can draw
on the HTML generation capabilities in OS X. OK, at the moment that is
often messy inline CSS (but at least it is valid), but may improve.
I was thinking specifically of Peter Borg's Smultron editor, which can
do much of what TextWrangler can do.
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ I
started with TextWrangler, but now almost always use Smultron instead. I
find the search and replace more intuitive, and the regular expression
support is excellent, especially when used over multiple files in a web
project. Smultron is free, and open source. Plus you can change the
syntax definitions easily in the plist, since you mentioned syntax
highlighting.
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/syntaxColouring.html
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