Part of the Clay Basket Website. 7/22/96.

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Testing with PageMill

Guess what? I'm using PageMill as the text editor for this page, and soon my whole website. It's cooooooooool.

Lots of things work. Some examples. Here's a bunch of double-quoted glossary references: "Brian Zisk", "Barton", "Bernie DeKoven", "cynsa", "Glenn Davis", "Guy Kawasaki", "Larry Ellison", "Marc Canter", "Stu Gannes", "Dave".

Here are 10 calls to clock.now ():

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For the next level of testing, I linked the sample "Earth and Ware" home page that comes with PageMill into my Clay Basket website to see what happens. It works. I had to manually upload the images, but that's the philosophy (or seems to be) of PageMill.

So far there are a few problems to report...

First, I wish there was some way to change the default font for text. I think this is Palatino 10 I'm typing in now. It's really hard for me to read. I'm accustomed to Palatino 12 or 14. Every editor I use has this feature. It's a lot to give up. I just sent an email to the "PageMill List" asking about this.

Another problem, when we send it a message to open a new file, we first create an empty file, then send an AE to the editor to open the file. PageMill puts up a modal dialog when its in the background. In the world of Apple Events this is a no-no. It's not clear why it needs to complain about this situation at all? Why not just handle it without saying anything? It may appear picky, but it's going to be a support issue.

Remember when you edit a file that you need to click on the icon at the top-right corner of the window to enable editing.

I'm also going to bitch about the lack of menu sharing support. I'd like to be able to put a Page Preview command in their menu bar, as I have in all the other apps I use, including BBEdit. To view the page in Netscape I have to switch into Clay Basket.

On the other hand, I like the fact that it doesn't complain when I send an AE to it to open a file that it already has open.

This page was last built with Frontier on a Macintosh on Mon, Jul 22, 1996 at 10:35:41 PM. Thanks for checking it out! Dave