BBEDit 10.5.13 is available and will run on 10.6.8. I have been using BBEdit for 23 years, originally on an SE/30. Before content management systems were a thing, BBEdit’s implementation of regex search and replace was an FSM-send for site maintainers.
You could use VIM with some plugins, but I agree that you might look at simple online editors.
Cary
> On May 16, 2015, at 2:20 PM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Actually, BBEdit doesn't support 10.6, so scratch that option.
>
> - Dave
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Just a side note: I'd be very leery of using Textedit. No offense meant
>> to Jason, but Textedit supports (and, unlss configured, defaults) to RTF
>> for files it creates, which won't work for HTML/CSS.
>>
>> If you're on 10.6.8, Textwrangler's current version works, as does
>> SublimeText 2. If you have money to throw at the problem, BBEdit does have
>> substantial web-related stuff added on to TextWrangler, and may have an
>> educational discount.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Joe Hourcle <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 16 May 2015, Nathan Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>> If you do not need all the bells and whistles I would recommend
>>>> TextWrangler. Free versions should still be available online and its bigger
>>>> brother BBEdit is overkill for basic web editing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, the significant difference between TextWrangler and BBEdit is
>>> that BBEdits has a number of features that are specifically for web design,
>>> that don't exist in TextWrangler.
>>>
>>> Looking at the version of BBEdit 9.1 that I have installed, the majority
>>> of it is in the 'Markup' menu:
>>>
>>> * Close current tag / Balance tags
>>> * Check syntax
>>> * Check links
>>> * Check accessibility
>>> * Cleaners for GoLive/PageMill/HomePage/DreamWeaver
>>> * Convert to HTML / XHTML
>>> * Menu items to insert tags (which then give what attributes are allowed)
>>> * Menu item to insert CSS
>>> * Preview in ... (gives a list of installed web browsers)
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> That said, TextWrangler is still a good free editor -- and I personally
>>> rarely ever use the insert tags/CSS items (as I've been writing HTML for
>>> ... crap ... I feel old ... 20+ years).
>>>
>>> But to say that BBEdit is overkill for web editing is just wrong -- the
>>> majority of the feature differences are *specifically* for web editing.
>>>
>>> -Joe
>>>
>>> (disclaimer: for a decade or so, I was a beta tester for BareBones. I
>>> haven't been using the latest-and-greatest version in a while, as I prefer
>>> not to install newer version of MacOSX on my personal systems ...
>>> basically, since Apple decided to bring all of the iOS annoyances into the
>>> desktop. As such, I can't install BBEdit 10 or 11 to see what the
>>> difference are in more recent versions)
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: "Sarles Patricia (18K500)" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: ?5/?16/?2015 10:21 AM
>>>> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] free html editors
>>>>
>>>> I just this minute subscribed to this list after reading Andromeda
>>>> Yelton's column in American Libraries from yesterday with great interest
>>>> since I would like to teach coding in my high school library next year.
>>>>
>>>> I purchased Andy Harris' HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies for my
>>>> summer reading and the free HTML editors he mentions in the book are either
>>>> not really free or are not compatible with my lab's 2008 Macs.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone recommend a free HTML editor for older Macs?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks and happy to be on this list,
>>>> Patricia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ____________________________________________
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>>>> You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell
>>>> whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
>>>>
>>>> As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the
>>>> best information. - Benjamin Disraeli
>>>>
>>>>
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