First real experience with OmniWeb 5.0 - some comments

[Scott Anguish]

On May 7, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Karl Kuehn wrote:

> 	Have you used OmniWeb's source viewer and then "redisplay"ed the 
> contents? This allows you to play around with a lot of 
> CSS/html/javascript. Unfortunately for playing with CSS and javascript 
> it does not support simulated editing of linked files (one of my 
> perennial requests, along with the same thing for JavaScript).
> 	What I usually do in this case is to open the source of the document, 
> then grab the contents of the sytlesheet (this used t be with curl, 
> now it is simply in another OW window) and replace the stylesheet 
> reference with the content of that page. Then I can play all I want.
>

	I don't want to play now, rather I want to keep the designs and code 
around for future exploration.

> 	Recently the newest crop of separate source editors have been getting 
> close to having this ability, but i have to put in <base> tags for the 
> images, etc... I think that there is some real room for the OmniGroup 
> to innovate in this area again, either by allowing separate source 
> windows to edit the CSS/JavaScript pages, or to allow these to be 
> automatically inlined in the source viewer (preferably with an 
> expand/contract option), and it would be nice if OmniWeb could get 
> live preview abilities.. maybe taking HyperEdit as a model for this.
>
> 		Karl Kuehn
> 			larkost at softhome.net
>
> Ps... I think you just need to get used to the bookmark and tabs 
> system. You are probably trying to use OmniWeb's system like you have 
> to use every other browser's. Relax, don't organize too much, and let 
> the location bar's automatic searching do the work for you. "Use the 
> force luke!".

	that's now how I use the browser though...