Nvu is a complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. It makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
Software: Freeware
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Linspire
Download: Nvu 1.0 Beta pre-Release 2
Homepage: Nvu
Version ChangeLog:
Nvu is now based on Firefox 1.0 codebase.
As a side-effect of the above, the Extensions and Themes managers now work correctly. A few extensions are available from there. Developers willing to create new extensions or themes for Nvu need its application ID.
Help menu entries now correctly launch the browser on Linspire. If it does not, you miss the file /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-ext.
Linspire, Fedora2/KDE and Windows versions now all display icons for files and dirs in the site manager (thanks Michael Pyne for help on KDE/Qt)
The character set can be changed on the fly and chosen by default in the preferences.
™ character added to the Insert Special Characters dialog.
PHP processing instructions were incorrectly serialized with a leading >?php, this is now fixed :-)
Publishing a document was firing an alert, it's now gone.
The Inline Spell Checker is turned OFF by default because it drastically impacts performance when you save a loooong document or switch back from source to normal view.
Source view enhanced to prepare line numbering (should be available in 0.80)
On some linux platforms, the Site Manager's sidebar was empty on first launch. Closing and relaunching Nvu made it appear again normally. This is now fixed.
Context-click on the last tab to close it left the tabeditor grey, this is now fixed
Editing the source view and switching back does not double the contents of the document any longer
Progress on non-localizable strings although it's still a work in progress (thanks to Flore and Bob for the list)
Localization uses the composer/locales directory.
oh, and of course, nvu -edit now launches the app AND opens the requested document :-) Please don't forget /home/glazman/foo.html and C:\home\glazman\foo.html are not URLs... file:///home/glazman/foo.html is a URL...
