Web settings is an essential component of GoLive® that makes sure your web documents are written with valid source code. It comes with a complete inventory of HTML elements, special character codes, file mappings, and browser display profiles. The Web Settings window contains several different tabs that you can edit to accommodate new or modified elements as standards evolve. Web settings also serve as a reference manual, assisting web authors in choosing the proper elements and attributes for their web pages.
Important: Errors made while editing web settings can cause serious damage
to your documents. Before making any changes, check the current HTML specifications
defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at www.w3c.org.
Global
The Global tab of the Web Settings window contains options for formatting the source code, such as indentation and lowercase and uppercase usage.
Markup
The Markup Language tab of the Web Settings contains the entire range of HTML, SMIL, SVG, WML, and GoLive proprietary elements that GoLive can read and write. The information stored in the Markup Language tab is used by GoLive’s syntax checker. HTML standard elements include all those specified by the HTML 2.0 and 3.2 standard publications, plus HTML 4.0 forms tags. You can add elements to the list and edit existing elements as the current HTML standard evolves. In addition, you can import an XML document type definition (DTD) file and bind it to file extensions and MIME types.
Characters
The Characters tab of the Web Settings window includes all the special characters specified by ISO 8859-1 and the HTML 3.2 standard. HTML uses a specific notation for encoding special characters to ensure a uniform display across multiple computer platforms. GoLive uses the content of the Characters tab to map special characters added to your HTML documents to their web-specific character entity references.
Browser Profiles
The Browser Profiles tab in the Web Settings window contains display profiles of popular browsers on Windows and Mac OS. You can select any listed browser and platform to serve as the default profile for viewing documents in the layout editor. The alternative profiles can be used for previewing pages with the View palette.
The profiles let you simulate how fonts and other design elements display on Windows and Mac OS. They do not affect how GoLive writes HTML code, or what the viewer sees when visiting your site. The profiles are made with cascading style sheets that use element selector styles. If you know how to build cascading style sheets, you can duplicate an existing profile and edit it to create a new browser profile.
Note: The stylesheets that you create in the CSS editor are not affected by or related to the style-sheet-based profiles in the Browser Profiles tab of Web Settings.
File Mappings
The File Mappings tab in the Web Settings window shows the MIME type for various file extensions and the application that is assigned to open each of them. If the Application column in the Web Settings window is set to default, the application that will be launched is the same as that mapped in the operating system. You can modify the existing mappings or add new ones.
