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You may find that designs will break on Windows PCs even

though they seemed robust at the largest text point size on a

Macintosh. This is because, on the Windows platform, the font

can be set to an even larger size than it can on a Mac. When

creating commercial work, it is essential to view your pages using

browsers under Windows.

Note: When viewing under the HTML Layout

option, it’s best to switch off

Outlines in the View

menu; otherwise, the HTML table outlines could be

confusing.

HTML layout with the CSS button on (Freeway Pro only) is

unlikely to encounter layout splitting, since each item is held on

its own discreet layer with relation to other items on the page.

Previewing in a browser

Previewing your work in browsers is an essential part of creating your site. It’s important to test your pages in several browsers to make

sure they appear as you expect. For example, your page may look different in Safari and Firefox. This is down to differences in the way

that web pages are rendered in the different browsers. While Freeway attempts to give you the best preview possible while working

inside Freeway, this is actually a compromise between how the pages will look in several of the more popular browsers.

It is also important to check how your pages will look when

viewed on Windows PCs. Equivalent font sizes are displayed

approximately one-third larger in Windows compared with

the Macintosh, and this can potentially cause problems. If

you don’t have access to a PC, you can view your pages in

Internet Explorer with the fonts set to their largest size, or set

the font size to 16-point instead of 12-point in your browser’s

preferences. This will give an approximation of what may happen under Windows.

Freeway maintains a list of browsers on your computer to make it easy to preview your work in the browser of your choice. When you

first launch Freeway, it compiles a list of currently installed browsers. You can subsequently add or remove browsers from the list, or

have Freeway check for any changes to your installed browsers and update the list automatically.

You can also choose which browser you wish to preview in most often and set that as your default browser. This is also the browser that

will be used when you use the keyboard shortcut for previewing the current page in a browser. When you first launch Freeway, it sets as

the default browser the one that is the system default browser.

Maintaining the browser list

1. Choose Preview Setup from the Preview submenu in the File menu.

2. Freeway displays a list of browsers on your system and shows a check

mark next to the default browser:

Click New… to add a new browser to the list.

To remove a browser from the list, select it and then click Delete.

To update a reference to a browser, select it and then click Edit…. Locate

the browser in its new location and click OK.

To set one of the browsers as the default, select it and then click in the

Default column.

To have Freeway automatically update the list with any new browsers,

click Update.

3. When you’re done, click OK.

To preview the current page in the default browser, press Alt-Command-b.

Viewing your document’s HTML

There are two ways to view the HTML that Freeway generates:

• Preview the page as normal in a browser. Then from the browser’s View menu, choose to view the source (all browsers use the word

“source”, even though the command may be worded differently).

• Within Freeway, choose a text editor (such as BBEdit) as a browser. Follow the procedure for adding a browser (discussed above in

Maintaining the browser list) but choose your text editor of choice.

In either case, when viewing the HTML, make sure to choose

More Readable from the HTML code popup menu in the

Output panel in the Document Setup dialog.

On the left is how we might expect

the previous image to preview in a

browser. On the right is what happens

when the browser’s text is enlarged.

Note: Internet Explorer Mac is no longer installed as standard with new

Macs, and Microsoft has not supported it now for well over ten years—so

it is no longer considered to be a reliable testing tool. Older or obsolete

browsers, however, can sometimes be found on the Evolt.org web site:

http://browsers.evolt.org

Note: If you choose a text editor as a browser, make sure to close the ﬁle

in the text editor before attempting to republish the site. If the ﬁle remains

open, Freeway may not be able to overwrite it when you republish changes.

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