Why isn TextEdit listed as an option for editing HTML files (webpages)?
TextEdit, the text editor included with Mac OS X, is a very poor choice for editing webpages. While TextEdit appears to let you edit HTML files in a more natural manner because you don’t have to edit the HTML code, it doesn’t understand all HTML formatting. If you save your HTML file after editing it in TextEdit, it is nearly guaranteed that your webpage’s links will be broken and you’ll have lost some of the formatting. Therefore, Fetch does not offer TextEdit directly as an editor choice for HTML files. If you are determined to use it for editing your HTML files, you can set it as the editor by choosing the Other menu item from the Edit files like this with pop-up menu in the Transfer Options pane of the info window. But we strongly recommend against it. Instead, we recommend that you consider using either TextWrangler or Smultron, two excellent and free text editing programs for the Macintosh. However, you will have to edit the HTML code directly with both. There are many other fine
