mac browsers don't load load my test html files


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So instead of going through the editing app I use on my site through the browser, I wanted to make some files on my machine and do local tests.

I create my HTML documents and save them as .html files. I load them up in FF, Safari, and Chrome, and all of them just load the text without actually processing the HTML.

I do this all day long at work without any issues on the POS windows XP box they give me, so I know I'm not doing anything wrong with the HTML.

When I upload the .html file to my server, it still doesn't work properly.

I've used both Text Edit and MS Word to create these HTML files. Any ideas on wtf I'm doing wrong? I feel like I'm idiotically missing something... This is just ridiculous!

I don't know if this is the cause, but don't use Word to work on HTML. Word adds in all kinds of crap, and uses magic quotes and such. Just use a text editor. I don't have a Mac, so I can't say which are good, but use something other than Word, and see if you still have the same issues.

I don't use word... it was just a test to see if I was doing something wrong with Text Edit.

Why won't text edit work? That's such crap.

  On 17/10/2011 at 01:14, articuno1au said:

I don't think the word part is in anyway related, but +1 for not using word to work with HTML.

Either Notepad, Notepad++ or Visual Studio Express Web Edition

I prefer Visual Studio >.<

I guess you missed this is the OSX forum? (or I can't find the "Mac version" of Notepad++ on their website).

  On 17/10/2011 at 01:13, cooky560 said:

If you don't fancy working with the actual code, but want an editor that spews out globally readable sites, I use KompoZer, it's free for Mac and Unix and its not massively different from Dreamweaver style apps.

You completely missed the point of my post. I WANT to work with HTML code...

Indeed I did, my apologies.

I read it as "working with XP and won't run on Mac".

My mistake >.<

EDIT::

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Text wrangler seems to be the closest OSX equivalent to Notepad++. Not sure if that helps at all >.<

Maybe an obvious question, but how exactly are you saving the files in Text Edit? If you don't have it set up correctly, then you aren't saving the html files as pure text. You have to remember that Text Edit is really closer to Wordpad on Windows than it is to Notepad.

Here's an article on Apple's support site that might help: http://support.apple.com/kb/ta20406

  On 17/10/2011 at 01:34, cooky560 said:

You'll see that Kompozer has tabs, one for design and one for direct code input if you try it :)

thanks; i'll give that a try

  On 17/10/2011 at 01:29, articuno1au said:

Indeed I did, my apologies.

I read it as "working with XP and won't run on Mac".

My mistake >.<

No worries.

Also, if you want to view html files through a web server on your Mac, go to preferences and turn on web sharing. It will give you a link to your Sites directory, and anything viewed through that link (it's the same as your IP address + ~username/sites) will be run through Apache.

And they're probably not working because, as noted above, textedit is saving them in the wrong format (or with the wrong encoding). Try TextWrangler, it's free and has syntax highlighting.

If the HTML is definitely saved in a plaintext document, It could be that the MIME types for that particular kind of document is configured incorrectly either on the web server (if you have installed one locally and using this to run the tests) or on the operating system (if you are running it off the local file system)

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