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Re: Nvu finally in sarge



On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:34:52PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:34 pm, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > On Monday 18 April 2005 23:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > For those who are interested and have been using nvu from a
> > > tarball or from source, the official package is now in Sarge:
> >
> > Does nvu actually do anything new, that wasn't available in Quanta etc.?
> > Seemed very overhyped last time I looked, but maybe I'm missing something?
> >
> > --
> > Lee.
> 
> Last I looked, you couldn't compose in Quanta in a true WYSIWYG fashion.  I 
> know someone in this thread pointed out that WYS changes from browser to 
> browser, but one point I've made over and over is that there are many 
> different learning and thinking styles.  Some people do best coding by hand, 
> but some do best building web code when they can do it visually and see what 
> they are doing.  Nvu works for them much better than Quanta or any other 
> program on Linux.  Even though they may have preview modes (and I think 
> Quanta has some kind of live preview mode), Nvu is the first HTML editor that 
> provides all the features one needs to create web pages on Linux.  Mozilla 
> Composer didn't do forms.  Some programs will display in a preview mode, but 
> if you think visually, coding without seeing it is difficult.  There was also 
> IBM's WebSphere HomePage Builder, but that only ran with Wine and there were 
> issues with it and later versions.
> 
> I can fully understand why many people want to hand code all their HTML.  What 
> I can never understand is why so many people (not all, but a very rude vocal 
> minority -- and no, Lee, I don't mean you at all, here) who hand code their 
> HTML seem to not understand that what works for them does not work for 
> everyone.  For those non-hand-coding and visual thinking people that need to 
> design web pages on Linux, it is wonderful to finally have Nvu on Linux.
> 

Its a modern day version of 'real programmers code only in octal' (pre IBM 360)

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net



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