Web Authoring Features

Automatic Update

For those working on their webpage in an editor and previewing changes. This option will automatically reload a webpage as soon as it is saved in the editor. This saves time as you won't have to give a preview page command to the editor. On the minus side this always saves the changes to the page whether those changes are beneficial to the page or not.

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This feature is activated under the "View" menu rather than in the preferences. -- SmokeyArdisson - 11 Jun 2003

Check syntax

iCab has several ways to assist webpage autors in writing valid HTML. One of these is the error report (see Making iCab Smile below). Another is the check syntax contextual menu entry. To enable this feature go to the contextual menu item in the preferences. In the bottom half of this pane (second item in the middle column) is the checkbox that instructs iCab to add a new contextual menu item that will add the following: "Check Syntax with W3C? Validator". When selected this will redirect you to a page at the W3C? (http://validator.w3.org/) that will automatically check the page's code for you. (Note: works only on uploaded pages, not on pages that are on your hard disk. To test local pages at the W3C? , go here.) If you have also checked the "Offer contextual menus for calling the HTML checker of BBEdit" (only useful if you actually have BBEdit installed) in the Error report pane of the preferences, additional items will be added to the contextual menu: Check Syntax with BBEdit and Check Links with BBEdit. These work by directing the page's code to BBEdit (a popular Macintosh only text editor; more info at Bare Bones Software's Web Site).

Making iCab Smile