Re: Nvu finally in sarge
Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 05:54 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>>It doesn't do anything "new," per se. Nvu is the old "Composer"
>>component of the Moz suite. The Firefox of WYSIWYG web page editing.
>
>
> I disagree.
>
> It may not do any one thing new, but it adds forms to Composer, which makes it
> the first WYSIWYG HTML editor on Linux to do so. It's also the first WYSIWYG
> editor to include any kind of site management, and to try to make site design
> as easy as possible (and the lead developer said producing clean HTML was one
> of their goals).
>
> To a coder, it's nothing new, to a non coder who uses Linux and makes
> websites, it is quite new.
>
> Hal
>
For new, I would say that the Extensions and Themes support in Nvu is
also new. It is built on Firefox1.0 codebase and hence supports the
Extension Manager and Theme Manager. From a coder point of view, I would
say that Nvu produces much cleaner code than Frontpage (I haven't tried
DW). And there an inbuilt tool which can clean the markup if there are
empty tags, or extra <br> elements. The CSS editor, although its
diffcult to use, is much more improved than the one available for
Composer. It contains all the style rules that I usually use baring just
a few. AFAIK, composer doesn't like PHP. The 1.0PR (not in debian yet)
has support for choosing the DOCTYPE to be either Transitional or Strict
and a preset option to generate an HTML page or an XHTML page. You can
also drag the block-element's borders from the top and the left rulers
to resize the element.
Those were a few of the ones I could remember. However, I hand code my
html pages when time permits. Nvu seems to be a good piece of software
which can be used for a quick HTML page generation and it will improve
in future.
/KS
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