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From: Terry Teague
Subject: BBTidy v1.0b9: BBEdit plugin checks and corrects HTML and XML
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When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there
was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy
editing into nicely laid out markup? Well now there is! BBTidy is a BBEdit
(and BBEdit Lite) plugin for Mac OS designed for doing just that. BBTidy
checks and corrects HTML and XML to make it compliant with the Worldwide
Web Consortium (W3C) HTML standards.
BBTidy also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by
specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify
where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more
accessible to people with disabilities.
BBTidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your
attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is
listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the
problem lies in your markup. BBTidy won't generate a cleaned up version
when there are problems that it can't be sure of how to handle. These are
logged as "errors" rather than "warnings".
BBTidy corrects the markup in a way that matches where possible the
observed rendering in popular browsers from Netscape and Microsoft.
BBTidy is based on the freely available "Tidy" program by Dave Raggett.
BBTidy performs in a compatible way to "Tidy", but has a graphical user
interface (GUI), and takes full advantage of BBEdit's features. Balloon
Help is available for the configuration dialog.
For more information on Dave Raggett's "Tidy", browse the enclosed HTML
file "overview.html", visit the author's web site at
For more information on BBEdit, visit Bare Bones Software's web site at
The current version of BBTidy and other products based on "Tidy" for Mac OS
can be found at
System Requirements :
Any Macintosh (except Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512Ke, Macintosh Plus,
Macintosh SE, Macintosh Portable, PowerBook 100, Macintosh Classic) running
System 7.0 or later.
The "Carbon" version of BBTidy requires Mac OS 8.1 + CarbonLib 1.0.2 or
later (Mac OS 8.6 or later requires CarbonLib 1.1 or later), or Mac OS X
(DP4 or later supported). At the time of writing, Apple Computer Inc. has
made v1.0.4, v1.2, and v1.2.5 of CarbonLib publically available to
end-users; other versions are available to members of the Apple Developer
Connection (
Disk space required is less than 1 MB; available free memory required is
approximately 2 MB minimum, more memory is recommended.
Also requires BBEdit or BBEdit Lite.