Re: [school-discuss] New software nvu

["David M. Bucknell" <dbucknell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it's any better than Composer -- not much different.  I 
wish there
was more support for keeping Composer going as a not to the importance 
of giving
the average Joe/Jill the power of publishing -- which in turn is a nod to
Berners-Lee's well-reasoned intentions which he supports with Amaya:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

David

----- Message from michaelldean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------
    Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 14:26:25 -0700
    From: Michael Dean <michaelldean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: [school-discuss] New software  nvu
      To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> Andrew Reid wrote:
>
> > On 09/05/2005, at 1:36 PM, glogan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone else tried nvu a wysiwyg html editor.  I have given it a 
> > >  first look on my
> > > Fedora Core 3 and Mac OS X machines.  It looks like a simple html  
> > > editor much like
> > > Adobe PageMill.  It is not as powerful as the newer programs like  
> > > Dreamweaver and
> > > Golive.  It is open source and runs on Linux, Mac and Windows.  ,  
> > > which worked fine.
> >
> >
> > Nvu is an offshoot of the Composer component of Mozilla. It's not 
> > too  bad -- it uses the Gecko rendering engine like the rest of the  
> > Mozilla products, but we found that it did odd things with certain  
> > aspects of editing. More a bug than a design flaw, but I suppose  
> > that's something that you might need to be aware of -- it's not as  
> > mature as the more powerful programs you have mentioned.
> >
> > That said, as a replacement for Composer, it's fantastic. That, and  
> > it runs everywhere -- Windows, Mac and other UNIXes.
> >
> >    - andrew
> >
> > -- | Andrew Reid [andrew.reid@xxxxxxx]
> > | Overworked and Underpaid Network Monkey
> > | C: +61-401-946-813  F: +61-8-8338-2518
>
> well I have it and use it on my windows machine.  betterthan most.


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