Re: Fw: HTML-Source view/editing

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Crowley wrote:
> 
> One of the things I appreciate about the View Source window is that it
> colour codes tags and attributes. When reviewing heavy-duty code, the
> ability to read by colour is really useful, and one that I miss when
> using IE. But I also miss having text-editing facilities; even a
> simple rightclick for a "select all/copy" menu would be better than
> having to mousedrag and copy (particularly because the View Source
> window isn't the most navigable of windows).

This is a bit excessive as a feature, but I think it would be good for
Mozilla to actually include a complete text editor as a module. It would
be a big benefit both for the editor and for the browser to be able to
have a single file both available for editing and rendered in HTML at
the same time; I frequently wish I could tell when I've forgotten to
close tags or something of the sort, and I'd be very happy to know about
how much visible text I'd actually typed so far (I.e., paragraphs with
tags look much longer than they are). Likewise, I'd like to be able to
see what's going on when I come to a page I either really like and want
to get ideas from, or can't read. 

> IOW, I like the colour-coding in View Source that you *don't* get
> reading HTML with text-editors like Notepad, but I would also like to
> see a few text-editing facilities dropped into the View Source window.

Using a slightly heavy-duty text editor (in my case, jed, a stripped
down version of Emacs), you can get color-coding as well as a readable
format and selection and editing capabilities.

	-Daniel
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