TextEdit has a preference "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files"
which I suggest you enable.
-wsv
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 08:21 PM, Erik Price wrote:
> 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.
