Editing HTML in one step from Internet Explorer for the Macintosh

Hello all, and welcome to my first column for the newly opened MacTopia web site. The area I would like to focus on is taking a look at some of the tweaks, customizations, additions and even (gasp) modifications that can be made to Internet Explorer to make browsing even more customized, powerful and productive. You know, all that cool geek stuff your friend watches you do and then goes "How did you do that!", and they think you are an elite super hacker. So if things like scripting, shortcuts, and tricks are your thing, you are in the right place. Let start off with….

One for the Page Authors
Currently when you look at the HTML source of a page in Internet Explorer (by choosing View . . . Source) you get a window that shows you all the HTML code of the current page. Neat. So when you come across that page with a really cool background color, that one that is kind of a Light-Neon-Pistachio, you can choose View > Source and see the Hex values for creating that shade so you can add it to your own home page (C’mon, you know you’ve done it). But what if the color is not exactly the right shade of Light-Neon-Pastachio, and you want to tweak its degree of Neon-ness by just a "33" and see what it looks like? In Internet Explorer’s source window, all you can do is look at this file. You cannot edit in this window, as it is read only. So you have to choose File > Save As, park the file on your drive somewhere, switch to another text editing app and choose file open. Sigh. That’s, like, 12 more extra seconds! This is a Mac, you cry! Surely there must be a better way, you cry! Oh the Humanity!