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Balthisar Tidy

Balthisar Tidy

OS X implementation of HTML Tidy

Version:  0.6

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I love this program

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: marmacet Sunday, June 06 2004 @ 01:54 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

I can't express how much I love this little program. One of my main problems is clearing out all the bloated code that word generates when making HTML files as those are the files i'm always given to start with.
I can take a 1.5 MB HTML file created by word. I drop it into bathisar and 15 seconds later its reduced to 300 K... Unfricking believable...
Only troubles I have are of course with tables which I wind up redoing but heck they are tables and no matter what I do I wind up redoing those.
quotation marks always wind up messed up to, but thats a simple fine and replace in dreamweaver and thats fixed. Either way this is the fastest, easiest way to cleanup HTML.. ESPECIALLY if you are working with word created files.
I hope to god this is actually still under some process of improvement. I would gladly pay money to see future and better versions of this, due to the simplicity and the time and frustration it saves me.
The batch feature doesn't seem to work but who cares. If you highlight 20 files and open all in balthisar you then just hit CMD+S as fast as you cand and they are cleaned and saved... Might as well be a batch process its so easy and fast.   
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I love this program - balthisar

Thanks for the kind remarks. The program is kind of stalled for the time being. New job, new house, new web host (finally balthisar.com kind-of works again).

I was going to open source this once "perfect" -- look for it to be open-sources as-is in the next month or so. I'd like to see it go somewhere!

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Tuesday, July 13 2004 @ 12:38 PM PDT