This is a happy little editor. For some reason it makes you smile. The best thing High Tea has going for it is its method for creating tables. As the documentation states, it works from the inside to the outside meaning you first create you table (with a fixed sized font), then format elements of the table, headers of the table, rows of the table, and finally the table's borders. The process works very, very well.
By setting your preferences, High Tea acts as a launcher when you want to edit graphic files or imagemaps. Thus you can select items from the toolbar and automatically edit the last graphic or imagemap file as well as any other graphic or imagemap file included in your document.
High Tea only suffers from a couple tiny problems. First, because it is seemed to be a HyperCard application, its window size is fixed, and the size is small. This wouldn't be so bad if the toolbar didn't take up so much of the screen. Second, and more importantly, High Tea could be improved if it were to collapse the number of simple dialog boxes it uses for input into a few multi-input dialog boxes. For example, to create an HTML table tag requires answering four questions. These four questions could easily be integrated into one dialog box. Furthermore, this dialog box could "remember" its previous settings making it easy to create mark up subsequent tags.
Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.