I'm having some interesting issues using the View In Web Browser command in Textpad, and I'm curious to hear from other people if it affects them in the same way.
In my original setup, I have IE8 with tabbed browsing turned off, and my cache (via Temporary Internet Files dialogue box) set to "Every time I visit the page".
This allows me to make changes to a HTML document, save it and then view it in the browser in quite rapid fashion. With IE8 set with no tabbed browsing and no caching, I can view the most current set of changes in only one IE window (as opposed to multiple tabs opening up, for each time Textpad triggers a View update).
When I try and duplicate this behaviour in Safari 4.04 for Windows (tabbed browsing off, Disable Caches on via the Develop menu) I don't quite get the same effect.
Textpad is able to trigger the view update, and the current Safari window appears to the front of the screen but the page itself has not refreshed. I have to refresh within Safari to force my new edits to appear onscreen.
Has anyone encountered this issue whilst using Safari? I'm trying to work out if this is a Textpad issue, or a fault with Safari itself. Either Textpad is not telling the currently opened Safari window to refresh the page, or Safari isn't responding to this trigger from Textpad.
I'm also curious to hear from anybody using Firefox 3.5 and who has figured out a way to prevent multiple tabs/new windows from appearing each time Textpad triggers a page View.
I'd like to emulate my IE8 setup, in that I have a single instance of Firefox open, and each time I trigger a page view update, the browser doesn't open a new tab or window, but just forces the update to appear in the currently opened window.
If I can't get this to work, it's not a big deal. I can always manually refresh the page myself in Safari, or just allow Firefox to keep opening new tabs/windows for each edit I make. It's just annoying because it's not as fluid or as fast as I've come to doing it with IE8.
Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Regards,
Carl