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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