Dear BBEdit friends, Like many of you, I was very disappointed to learn that Tidy has been dropped from BBEdit 11.0, because I have depended on Tidy's HTML code auto-correction feature for many years now, even though the Tidy code is quote outdated.
However, just today while again searching online for a suitable replacement, and after wading through pages which offered me Java-based apps which I couldn't get to work, source code, tarballs, binaries that failed to function under Yosemite, etc., I discovered a FREE gem called Balthisar Tidy. Folks, I am a very happy man. Aside from the fact that you have to run it outside of BBEdit, there is nothing to not like about this app, which is available both on their website -- balthisar.com -- as well as in the Mac App Store. The primary difference between the two, as you can imagine, is that the MAS version is sandboxed. Other than that, according to the developer's website -- his name is Jim Derry -- there are only minimal differences between the two. Consider this: • It is free. • It is modern, up-to-date Tidy code with the latest W3C specifications, and not the old 2004 - 2008 Tidy code. • It has a very simple, straightforward design with a lot of inline help. • It is Yosemite compatible. • You can tweak a long list of preferences to your heart's content so that your HTML docs look exactly the way that you want them to. • If you require batch processing, there is a commercial version in the Mac App Store which only costs like $8.00, and that is cheap for this gem. If you are a web designer and HTML coder who is picky about your HTML code, and who wants to make Googlebot happy, I recommend that you give this app a try. I don't think that you will be disappointed. No, I do not work for these folks; I was just so happy to find this today after learning that Tidy has been dropped from BBEdit. Rich and Patrick, I hope you don't mind me posting this being as it is for someone else's software, but I think a lot of HTML coders here will be happy to know that there is an easy and free way to fill the void that has been left by Tidy being dropped from BBEdit. If I have broken any list rules, I apologize in advance. Just delete this message. Kind regards, Bill Kochman Endtime Prophecy Net -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
