On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 09:59 PM, _brian_d_foy wrote:
> today i discovered that URL Scripting Access can download a web page > and save it > in a file. when i open the file with TextEdit, it looks like the web > page. that may > not seem very exciting, but a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away > i had to write > an HTML->PS converter so i could make thumbnails of web pages. it was > a pain > in the ass. however, since MacOS X can save as PDF files, all i need > to do is tell > TextEdit to save it as a PDF, then i can resize it how i like. seems > really simple. Actually, I found this "feature" to be a huge pain in the ass when I tried to teach my girlfriend how simple HTML is, and I tried to modify one of her iPhoto-generated web pages directly (I think I wanted to change the <title> or something). First I explained how everything on a web page is really represented by a simple language of tags and text, and if you open it in a program called a text editor, you can modify these tags and effect changes to the web page! (With iDisk this is even cooler because the file upload process is transparent to the user.) But I was using my father's machine and he doesn't have BBEdit or any other editor. I just wanted to Edit some Text so I thought TextEdit would be perfect, but no, it acted more like MS Word than a text editor, trying to render the HTML even after I had saved the file as "plain text" (which it was to begin with). I ended up switching back to my computer/BBEdit out of frustration but needless to say, my girlfriend still doesn't know HTML. Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
