David Gordon wrote:
Hi. Last night I tried to help my friend install Sea Monkey on his
Apple Mac so he can use Mozilla Composer to create and edit html
files. We appeared to successfully install Sea Monkey for Mac OS, but
when we tried to open a (very, very) simple html file that I had just
created in Mozilla Composer on my PC it would not open it. Every time
we tried we got a dialog box saying something like: "This is a binary
file. Do you want to: (a) Open it; or (b) Save it."
-When we clicked on 'Open' we got the usual list of programs, but
Mozilla Composer was not one of them. Actually, Sea Monkey was on the
list but when we clicked on that it was opened automatically in Safari
browser (which was already loaded on his system prior to my
intervention)
- When we clicked on 'Save' it appeared to save the file successfully.
But trying, subsequently, to open that file with Mozilla Composer
still produced the same issues.
QUESTIONS: 1) Is there a way to get Mozilla Composer (instead of
Safari) to open html files? 2) If not, will it help if my friend to
uninstalls Safari?
NOTE: I know there are other free html editors that he could install
instead, but I'm familiar with Mozilla Composer and I will have to
train him on basic web page building, so it would be great if we could
use this. Btw, I know nothing about Macs and my friend, though he owns
one, knows very little about them.
Thank you!!!!
I'm not really clear on what you have done here.
On a Mac, if you double click to open a local html file, it will open in
the default browser, which appears to be Safari. That is expected
behavior, html files are supposed to open in a browser for viewing. You
could set them to all open in an editor but you really don't want to do
that.
The problem with using the Mac Open With dialog is that it does not
consider the components of SeaMonkey to be different applications. You
cannot use the Open With dialog to open the file in Composer
specifically. You can open it in the SeaMonkey browser then use
File>>Edit Page to edit it in Composer.
If it desired to use SeaMonkey as the default browser, you could open it
by double clicking, then use the above process to edit it.
If it is desired to leave Safari as the default browser, try opening
SeaMonkey, then Composer, and make sure it has focus. In the menubar,
which is at the top of the screen, click File>>Open File, and browse to
the location of your file. Open it with the Open File dialog, and you
will be able to edit it.
It is easier to open the file for editing if SeaMonkey is the default
browser, but not necessary.
As to the problem of the file from your Windows machine, there would
appear to be a problem with how it is saved. I suggest creating a
simple html file on his Mac, then close SeaMonkey and reopen the file,
to see how it behaves.
Lee
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