[Javascript] Attention on message Subject (was "Free HTML Editor For Macintosh")

flavio flavio at economisa.com.br
Mon Mar 1 06:55:55 CST 2004


Sanjeev,

What's the connection between 
 "Free HTML Editor For Macintosh" and JScript's function "print()"?

Citando Sanjeev J Singh <ssingh at emind.com>:

> Hi All,
> 
> When you use the print() function, the page that gets printed has a header
> and footer added. For me the header is OK but I would like to suppress the
> footer which prints the path of the web page. Is there a way (through code)
> to suppress this path from being printed?
> 
> Sanjeev
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu]On Behalf Of David Lovering
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 6:08 AM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Free HTML Editor For Macintosh
> 
> 
> I agree with Mike -- often the limitations perceived by a novice programmer
> are those of the development environment, and not the language itself.  I
> still do nearly all my high-level coding by hand using plain old text
> editors -- TextEdit and SimpleText are available on most of the Macs I've
> come across.  [Yes, I still use vi by preference, and not pico, emacs, or
> other warm-and-fuzzy graphical tools which eat up half your screen with GUI
> stuff].  In my book, GUI stands for "Graphics Used (by) Idiots".
> 
> If you want something that handles the indentations, color-coding, etc.,
> there are various flavors of BBSEdit that run on the Mac which can be
> rigged
> to provide it.  Again, this is all fluff and mirrors and will not
> appreciably help a bad programmer, nor add value to the code of a good one.
> If you are running in MacOSX under the BSD environment, there are various
> sorts of Emacs toolsets which will work much the same way as BBSEdit.
>  [Note -- you may have to run "fink" in order to get the X11 environment
> running properly so that you can run Emacs in window mode].
> 
> More importantly, even now there are contemporary versions of Netscape
> which
> exhibit "spline errors" when they encounter those ever-so-pretty indents
> and
> spaces in your code, producing nasty white boxes here and there on your
> screen.  To beat this, it is almost always essential to strip and compress
> all the unnecessary white space from your entire JavaScript/HTML (or
> whatever) code block before posting it to your server.
> 
> -- Dave Lovering
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Dougherty" <mdougherty at pbp.com>
> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Free HTML Editor For Macintosh
> 
> 
> > I would suggest for the sake of teaching, use a simple text editor
> (hypertext?)
> >
> > Without the GUI and potential crutch provided by a tool, your friend will
> learn to write much
> > better code.  AFTER they understand HTML and/or Javascript, let them look
> for a tool to simplify a
> > process they already understand.  Teach the language, not the builder
> package.
> >
> > that's my $0.02 - thanks
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:40:05 -0500
> >   "Pitre, Russell" <RPITRE at shawmut.com> wrote:
> > >Hello all-
> > >
> > >I'm Teaching a friend HTML and JavaScript....Does anyone know where I
> > >can find a free html editor for the mac?  I would like to find an editor
> > >that's similar to editplus for windows.
> > >
> > >Thanx in advance for the help!
> > >
> > >
> > >Russ
> > >
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