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Author Topic: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor  (Read 10530 times)

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Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« on: July 13, 2006, 07:15 AM »
looks nice.

Nvu (pronounced N-view)
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") 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.



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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2006, 08:43 AM »
It is nice, I've got Portable Nvu [http://portableapps.com/apps/development/web_editors/portable_nvu] on my USB stick so I can use it at work!

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2006, 08:49 AM »
It is nice, I've got Portable Nvu

I thought Nvu saved things in the Registry.  As you have a portable version, and it's cross-platform, that must not be true?



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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2006, 09:49 AM »
I wonder if it works now. Last time I tried it, you could'nt switch back from the preview tab. In fact you couldn't switch back to anything, nor click any button. And that was the 1.0 release, ready for production. It put me off a bit.

Nowadays I leave the web design to people who know more about it than me. Then I take their mess results and make it standards compliant by hand. After that I feed it to my cms...

I think nvu is a cool thing though, because it works on linux. People should try and see if this isn't enough for what they need to do. No need to buy expensive software :-)

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2006, 09:51 AM »
I thought Nvu saved things in the Registry.  As you have a portable version, and it's cross-platform, that must not be true?

The people over at http://portableapps.com/ have done a pretty nice job with their offerings. I had an issue with ThunderBird still writing to the Registry, but not with Nvu.

I got to say that PortableApps is a boon when you have to deal with StormTrooper IT people (God love them!)

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2006, 01:49 AM »
Nvu used to be a little funky a few years ago but it's really quite nice now. Highly recommended for the beginning and intermediate non-notepad web designer.

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2006, 02:08 AM »
Does it generate validatable xhtml code?

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2006, 02:15 AM »
Probably not, lol. But it seems like that's overrated considering there are still often big rendering differences between browsers.

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2006, 02:31 AM »
But it seems like that's overrated considering there are still often big rendering differences between browsers.

Yeah,... I'm just thinking of a bright future, where, some day, browsers use the standard, render everything in the same way, and don't accept 'bad' html.

- Back to reality,- however,... I'll have to accept the fact that *HTML is hopelessly broken for now. :P

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2006, 04:59 AM »
I got to say that PortableApps is a boon when you have to deal with StormTrooper IT people (God love them!)

We have that sort of  IT too.   Nice to know that Nvu is still usable  :)


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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2006, 08:34 AM »
I got to say that PortableApps is a boon when you have to deal with StormTrooper IT people (God love them!)
We have that sort of  IT too.   Nice to know that Nvu is still usable  :)

I figure it's something they put in the food at IT school  ;)

The only PortableApp I had trouble with was ThunderBird, the rest work a treat.

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Re: Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2006, 06:00 PM »