Preview

The rightmost button on the tool palette is the Preview button, which previews the current document using your favorite WWW browser.

Clicking on the Preview button saves the current HTML document as “HTML.edit.temp.html”, then opens your WWW browser as specified in the Editor Preferences.

Note that some browsers also allow you to set the application used for viewing the HTML source of the currently viewed document.  Set this preference to HTML.edit to use it to view and edit documents found online.

When I tried to preview my document, my machine exploded in a great ball of light.
Note that various alpha, beta and full release versions of various www browsers handle the “OpenURL” or “GetURL” AppleEvent messages with varying levels of success. I've had the most consistent success using Netscape and having it already running before attempting to preview the document. This may not be rocket science, but things will blow up now and then…

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