A few days ago I was working on a page for a site that uses Lasso, Blueworld's famous Web Database engine. To get the Lasso engine to pre-process your HTML, you simply have to change the file's extension to .lasso. I worked on my file and "Saved As..." index.lasso, on my desktop. After working on it for a few more minutes, I switched to Source mode to check some code. SURPRISE! There was no code. Switched back to Layout mode, and NO LAYOUT EITHER!

It was then I remembered all the horror stories I'd heard on the GoLive Talk List about this problem. I'd never had it happen to me before, but as they say, there's always a first time for everything.

So I closed my file [without saving, of course, I'm not that stupid] and decided to find out what was going on...the logical explanation to me was that GoLive having trouble interpreting my .lasso file because of the unfamiliar filename extension.

I opened up my Preferences and looked at my File Mappings...sure enough, no .lasso!!! So I added my own. On my first try, I set the Mime type to be text/lasso. I found GoLive would open the file as source, assuming it was some sort of foreign code, like JavaScript. So I changed the settings to what is shown below: