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OS X Odyssey 296 - Checking Out Taco HTML Edit 1.2.1 HTML Editor

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

By Applelinks Contributing Editor Charles W. Moore

If you're looking for a good, basic OS X native HTML editor, Taco HTML Edit 1.2.1 is worth checking out. It's a small download, and offers a surprisingly comprehensive array of features for a freeware application.

Taco HTML Edit is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and uses many of the core technologies built into Mac OS X including image transparency (in the image map wizard), toolbars, multithreading (for quick tag coloring), and access to Services.

Taco HTML Edit includes the following features:
• Customizable tag coloring


• Code Clips to keep track of frequently used HTML code
• The ability to choose any browser for the preview browser
• A menu for quick previewing in Internet Explorer, Netscape, OmniWeb, or Opera
• Word wrap can be turned on or off
• The ability to choose any font from the system font panel when displaying your code • Creating new documents with the code from an existing file
• Support for printing
• Customizable toolbar with a show/hide option
• Find panel with multiple search options
• Wizards for inserting colors, font tags, image tags, image maps, links, lists, meta tags, and tables


• Image map wizard that is easy to use and powerful
• A quick insert item in the toolbar for common text appearance tags


• Advanced Tag Insert Panel with all HTML 4.01 tags and attributes.
• Supports opening and saving files in Unicode and UTF8 formats to handle non-English characters.
• Right clicking (or control clicking) on a tag opens a tag edit panel.
• Checks tag syntax.
• Checks tag structure (makes sure that tags are closed where necessary, etc.).

While you are editing a document, you may preview it in a web browser by selecting the "Preview" item for the "View" menu. To preview your document in a certain browser, use the "Preview With Browser" submenu in the "View" menu. You can choose a default Preview Browser in the "Display" tab in the Preferences Panel.

Taco HTML Edit provides two ways to search documents for certain pieces of text. The "Find" item in the "Find" menu provides a panel for finding and replacing text in a single document. The "Batch Find" item in the "Find" menu can find and replace text in all of the open documents. Both Find Panels include options to ignore the case (uppercase vs. lowercase) of text while searching.

Using the "Insert" menu, you can use wizards to quickly create RGB colors, font tags, image tags, image maps, links, lists, meta tags, and tables. Most of the wizards are straightforward and easy to use.

The image map wizard deserves special attention. When selecting the "Image Map" item from the "Insert" menu, you are first presented with a panel asking for you to select an image and specify some information about it. You should then proceed by clicking the "Design Image Map" button. Another panel will appear that allows you to actually design the layout of the map. You design the map by creating new circles, rectangles, and polygons, and by moving and resizing them. Once you are done designing, click "OK", and then click "Insert Map" on the first panel.

From the "Insert" menu, you can also access an "Advanced Tag Insert" Panel. This panel helps you to create any HTML tag in the 4.01 Transitional HTML specification.

Code Clips provide a convenient way of storing and accessing frequently used HTML code. Clips can be created, modified, rearranged, and deleted by using the options in the "Clips" menu. The "Clips" menu is also where Code Clips can be chosen to be inserted into documents. The first ten clips in the menu are given keyboard shortcuts (command + 0 through command + 9).

Taco HTML Edit provides tools in the "Syntax" menu to help you ensure that your code is compliant with the HTML 4.01 Transitional standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. The "Check Tag Syntax" and "Check Selected Tag Syntax" items check individual tags for compliance. They examine tag names, tag attributes, and the values assigned for certain attributes. The "Check Tag Structure" item makes sure that all tags are opened and closed appropriately. It creates a hierarchical diagram of tags and identifies problems.

New in this version:
• Auto-Indent option
• Improved Stability
• User Interface Adjustments


 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
• 2.5 MB of available disk space
• RAM usage depends on the number of open files, but 8 MB of available RAM should be enough for most users.

Taco HTML Edit is freeware  
   
For more information, visit:
http://www.tacosw.com/

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Can I stop spinning?
I still think your reader is misinformed (iBook OS 9 Booting)

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Can I stop spinning?

From Carl Sieber

Charles,


Years ago, when my computer used to be a powerbook, I would spin down the hard-drive while using a simple program such as stickies, so that there wasn't any sound except that of my fingers on the keys. Now I wonder if I can convince my OS X iMac to duplicate that trick. Do you or any of your readers know of a handy little app, command, or applescript I can use to spin down the hard-drive and have it stay silent while I type?

Carl

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Hi Carl;

I can't recall any utility that does this, but this OS X tip tutorial may help:
http://www.osxfaq.com/Tips/bennett/index2.ws

Charles

I still think your reader is misinformed (iBook OS 9 Booting)

From anonymous

Charles,

I am a helper on Apple's discussion boards, and so far, they have not yet commented on whether or not iBooks indeed are now only Mac OS X bootable. Since your article came out I requested them to comment on your article, and so far they haven't. Since they haven't decided now to update the kbase articles relating to whether or not the iBook is bootable, and there is a kbase article on restoring Mac OS 9 from CD:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106294

I suggest your reader with the iBook attempt the instructions in this article and see if then Mac OS 9 appears in the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk after following those instructions.

If it does, then the Apple rep was misinformed that told him his iBook couldn't boot into Mac OS 9. If it doesn't, we'd like to hear from him, so Apple definitely updates its articles on what Macs can boot into what system in these two places:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86209
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25114

Because both would need to be updated.

Sincerely,
anonymous

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Hi A;

I'm agnostic on this issue. My 700 MHz iBook, purchased December 27, certainly boots happily into OS 9, and did so out of the box.

I've forwarded your note to the reader.

Charles

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The OS X Odyssey archives may be accessed here:
http://www.applelinks.com/news/odyssey/

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Charles W. Moore

Note: Letters to Moore's Mailbag may or may not be published at the editor's discretion. Correspondents' email addresses will NOT be published unless the correspondent specifically requests publication. Letters may be edited for length and/or context.

Opinions expressed in postings to Moore's MailBag are those of the respective correspondents and not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Editor and/or Applelinks management.

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CM

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The OS X Odyssey archives may be accessed here:
http://www.applelinks.com/news/odyssey/

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Charles W. Moore

Note: Letters to Moore's Mailbag may or may not be published at the editor's discretion. Correspondents' email addresses will NOT be published unless the correspondent specifically requests publication. Letters may be edited for length and/or context.

Opinions expressed in postings to Moore's MailBag are those of the respective correspondents and not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Editor and/or Applelinks management.

If you would prefer that your message not appear in Moore's Mailbag, we would still like to hear from you. Just clearly mark your message "NOT FOR PUBLICATION," and it will not be published.

CM


Charles W. Moore

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