Comments on: Tip: Getting Text Edit to open an HTML file in plain text http://www.webteacher.ws/2005/08/06/542/ Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:16:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Web Teacher http://www.webteacher.ws/2005/08/06/542/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Web Teacher Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:09:00 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/blog/?p=542#comment-16 The computer is set to open HTML documents in Safari. You can change the application you want to have open HTML documents using these steps. <br/> 1. Select the document in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.<br/> 2. Click "Open with" in the Info window.<br/> 3. Choose an application from the pop-up menu or choose Other to locate a different application.<br/> 4. To use the application you chose to open all similar documents (the same type as the current document and created by the same application), click Change All.<br/><br/>This will not affect web browsing, only the files you open from your own hard drive. If you have only used IE in the past, you are going to love Safari! The computer is set to open HTML documents in Safari. You can change the application you want to have open HTML documents using these steps.
1. Select the document in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.
2. Click “Open with” in the Info window.
3. Choose an application from the pop-up menu or choose Other to locate a different application.
4. To use the application you chose to open all similar documents (the same type as the current document and created by the same application), click Change All.

This will not affect web browsing, only the files you open from your own hard drive. If you have only used IE in the past, you are going to love Safari!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.webteacher.ws/2005/08/06/542/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Anonymous Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/blog/?p=542#comment-15 I have been teaching a web page design course using basic html coding. This year my school upgraded to OS X and I no longer have Simple Text available; thus I am using Text Edit for the students to enter their coding. I have found the solution on your site for saving Text Edit files as plain text and am able to save files that way. However that solution is only half of the story.<br/> <br/>My new problem is that when the students try to return to their saved .html files after viewing their work in Safari, Safari somehow automatically overwrites the saved files, changes the icon to a Safari icon rather than a Text Edit icon ? and voila, students no longer have text to edit -- only web pages to view.<br/> <br/>Surely there is some way with these two programs to accomplish the viewing/editing process that has worked so well with SimpleText and IE. I have been teaching a web page design course using basic html coding. This year my school upgraded to OS X and I no longer have Simple Text available; thus I am using Text Edit for the students to enter their coding. I have found the solution on your site for saving Text Edit files as plain text and am able to save files that way. However that solution is only half of the story.

My new problem is that when the students try to return to their saved .html files after viewing their work in Safari, Safari somehow automatically overwrites the saved files, changes the icon to a Safari icon rather than a Text Edit icon ? and voila, students no longer have text to edit — only web pages to view.

Surely there is some way with these two programs to accomplish the viewing/editing process that has worked so well with SimpleText and IE.

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