All Courses in the Web Applications Development Certificate:
browsers: For OS X, I don't recommend using Safari for
development. It's a little buggy in rendering in places.
Firefox (see http://www.mozilla.org/)
from Mozilla is a good bet. OS 9 doesn't have FireFox available,
but Netscape Communicator 7.0 is a good substitute (see http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/archive70x.jsp).
Newer versions of browsers are not really available for OS
9.
FirstClass was written originally for the Mac both OS 9 and OS X
flavours are available. You can download those directly from
Centrinity (See http://www.firstclass.com/ClientDownloads/).
pdf reading: Mac OS X comes with Preview, a very fast PDF
renderer. This will likely be the default application used to
open PDFs. For OS 9, you'll need to download a free copy of Adobe
Acrobat Reader (see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).
ssh/sftp: Mac OS X has both ssh and SFTP built into it and accessible
via OS X's Terminal (it's in Applications/Utilities/Terminal).
You'll need some understanding of the UNIX command line for that ,
although some people use a "helper" like JellyfiSSH (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11282)
If you want upload content to ttasp/ttphp, many GUI FTP programs also
support sftp, such as Transmit (see http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16683)
Mac OS 9 needs a separate program. I recommend MacSSH (see http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/8913)
SFTP can be done with the Interarchy FTP program if you want a nice GUI
(see http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/22532
text editor: For OS X, professionals use BBEdit Pro (see http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml)
It's a little expensive, even with a student discount but is designed
to support progamming and HTML editing. An older freeware version
(BBEdit Lite 6.x) which will also run on OS 9 is available (see http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/604).
Another possibility on OS X, with support for programming languages, is
SubEthaEdit (see http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/).
It's available free for non-commercial use.
word processing: For OS X, OpenOffice is now available if you're happy
running it under Apple's X11. OpenOffice is an Open Source
office productive suite similar to Microsoft Office which can produce
Word or RTF documents. You can download it from OpenOffice.org
(see http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/index.html)
Most Macintosh word processors (OS 9/OS X) will be able to produce RTF
files with no problems.
zipping: The eTMA system wants zip files and some materials are
distributed as zip archives. Most OS 9/OS X machines will have
Aladdin's StuffIt Expander installed which will open zip archives with
no problems. However, most machines do not have an equivalent
program to make zip archives. If you can afford it, the
easiest solution I've ever found was to use Aladdin's StuffIt Expander
(Standard) edition which comes with a droplet to just drag
folders/files onto and it creates proper zip files. It's $49.95
US. The latest version (10) is OS X only. You need to
purchase 7.x for OS 9. See http://www.stuffit.com/.
For cheaper options, have a look at ZipIt (see http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/5070)
for OS 9/OS X. OS X (Panther) has a built-in archive
utility. Right-click on the folder/file you wish to zip and
select "create archive". I personally haven't had much luck with
this. You might want to experiment with a PC friend first to be
sure it's working correctly.
[Many thanks to Michelle Hoyle
for these comments!]