I recommend Sublime: http://www.sublimetext.com/2 It's a great editor for
all languages (with lots of plugins if/when you need them). It's free to
use as long as you don't mind the pop up bugging you to buy it on occasion.

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Jason Bengtson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
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> 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) <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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