I use the "scrap book" extension in FF for saving webpages to inspect
their code each day.
You are right, though I don't know what you mean by the scrapbook
extension. The choices I had for saving in FF were 'web page complete', web
page HTML only', and 'text.' When I saved it as html in FF I w
> -Original Message-
> From: Linda H
>
> I saved the source and tried to open it in Notepad,
> but it just comes up as gobbledygook.
Probably UNIX or Mac line endings in a Windows editor that doesn't
know what to do with them. Either try a diferent editor (Editpad Light
seems to always de
Thanks to all for the advice.
What I was seeing was complete gobbledy-gook, not readable text
interspersed with unreadable text. It was the same in Notepad, Wordpad,
Word, and Homesite. I don't have Textpad, but I may get it, though I am
very used to Homesite, and I like it.
The technique that
Embellishing Joel's answer:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Linda H wrote:
...
> unreadably small font size. I saved the source and tried to open it in
> Notepad (to add line wrapping), but it just comes up as gobbledygook.
> Same in Homesite. I realize I have run across this other times as well.
> What ca
Linda,
If by gobbledygook you mean lots of readable text interspersed with
weird characters, it is probably a Linux/windows end of line character
discrepancy.
I find that editplus (Windows and free) reads files that do that in
notepad. I'm sure other editors allow you some control end of line
