PlutoPants
03-24-2004, 10:59 AM
I was just playing around and discovered something I was not aware of after (oh my) 10 years of Psion abuse:
On my Netbook I was viewing some HTML pages I am trying to generate with PsiDat in Web (from the ER5 Message Suite).
I used the Tools-View Page Source function to see how what I was generating looks in code and found I could actually edit the source code directly. It seems this is being done in Web (according to my task manager) although I do have Symbian's Text Editor installed.
I was able to do a File-Save As and create a new web page that included my editing.
Now, perhaps I'm just going stupid, but I was never aware that I could use Web to edit web pages like this. For years I have used first plain text Editor, then HTML Edit, then HTML Designer - without even thinking I could tweak the odd web page in Web.
For me, this is a little discovery along the lines of "How come I never knew this before? Or maybe I did and have forgotten it [it happens doesn;t it?]".
However, I am intrigued as to how on earth Web seems to be an editor as well as a viewer for HTML. I presume it is calling upon EPOC's text editor or something. Please, someone just tell me that everyone else knows about this and that it's just me having a 'senior moment' - or offer me a reason why this works?
I am just slightly confused and wonder why this feature hasn't been more exploited (for instance by macros to create web page templates etc).
George
On my Netbook I was viewing some HTML pages I am trying to generate with PsiDat in Web (from the ER5 Message Suite).
I used the Tools-View Page Source function to see how what I was generating looks in code and found I could actually edit the source code directly. It seems this is being done in Web (according to my task manager) although I do have Symbian's Text Editor installed.
I was able to do a File-Save As and create a new web page that included my editing.
Now, perhaps I'm just going stupid, but I was never aware that I could use Web to edit web pages like this. For years I have used first plain text Editor, then HTML Edit, then HTML Designer - without even thinking I could tweak the odd web page in Web.
For me, this is a little discovery along the lines of "How come I never knew this before? Or maybe I did and have forgotten it [it happens doesn;t it?]".
However, I am intrigued as to how on earth Web seems to be an editor as well as a viewer for HTML. I presume it is calling upon EPOC's text editor or something. Please, someone just tell me that everyone else knows about this and that it's just me having a 'senior moment' - or offer me a reason why this works?
I am just slightly confused and wonder why this feature hasn't been more exploited (for instance by macros to create web page templates etc).
George