When I recently taught a beginning web coding course I told mac users they
would be fine to start out just using textedit. If you really want them to
get the advantage of color coding and other, more modern features, there
are also online editors like:  that you can take a look at. Bluefish and
Eclipse work on mac, although I don't know what kind of legacy support they
have. Seems like it would be strong, though, since Eclipse is very widely
used and has been around forever.

Best regards,
*Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
Innovation Architect


*Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library*
1133 John Freeman Blvd
Houston, TX   77030
http://library.tmc.edu/
www.jasonbengtson.com

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:19 AM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hmmm...
>
>
> Are they Intel or PPC, and what OS version are they running?
>
> It seems likely that there's SOME version of TextWrangler that will work -
> they keep old versions around for the use of people with older OS versions.
>
> http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/updates.html
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) <
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> > 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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