Introducing Nvu, A Web-Authoring Application

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that the first public beta of Nvu has been released. "What's that?", I hear you cry. Well, Nvu (pronounced 'N-View', short for 'New View') is a new open source WYSIWYG Web page creator/editor with FTP facilities that produces standards-compliant code. It is based on Mozilla Composer and is being developed by ex-Netscape employee Daniel Glazman's new company, Disruptive Innovations, under licence for Lindows.com. All the code for Nvu will be released back into the wild under the MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-licence. More information is available in the Nvu FAQ. Users of LindowsOS, other Linux distributions and Windows 98 and later can download Nvu 0.1 now." TheWanderingHermit writes points out that the feature list includes "(finally!) the ability to include and edit forms."

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Impressive.

[Beatbyte]

If you see his screenshots, they seem impressive. I'm at 85% right now and plan on doing some testing tonight with it.

1 less reason to get stuck with DreamWeaver MX at work ;)

Missing DLLs on Windows

[Peter Cooper]

For Windows users... like Firebird (pre 0.8) you can just unzip this and go. However, you may get it bitching about missing DLLs (I did, on a reasonably clean install of XP). The two that were missing were C runtime libraries, which I managed to download at dll-files.com (never heard of it before, but it works). msvcp70.dll and msvcr70.dll. As ever, exercise caution, although it has worked for me :-)

Warning - HTML files containing PHP code

[a.koepke]

Don't use this program to edit any HTML files containing PHP code. It does not like PHP code and will actually modify the file and partially remove your PHP code.

So... unless you feel like loosing your programming code and completely stuffing up your file, stay away from this program.

Re:Where is the open source?

[poulbailey]

> From the web-site: Nvu is 100% open source

Also from the website:
"Nvu 0.1 binary test builds are now available for Linux and Windows. The source code of Nvu will be released when we reach a more complete product in terms of features. The code will be tri-licensed MPL/GPL/LGPL and we'll contribute it back to Mozilla.org at that time."

I don't know enough about these licenses to know if this is kosher though.

Re:Where is the open source?

[be-fan]

But its not licensed under the GPL yet. The site says that the source will be tri-licensed under the GPL.

Not running on Fedora Core 1

[mshiltonj]

I just downloaded it to my Fedora Core 1 machine, and couldn't getting it to run.

NOTE: The tarball unpacks into the current directory! It doesn't create a subdirectory for itself!

There is no 'install' script at all. Untarring is the installation, so put it where you want.

When I run it, it fails and reports that I'm missing two libraries, one I do have and one I don't.

I looked at the start script and it's got a Mozilla 1.7a path hardcoded in there. I'm running Mozilla 1.6, so that's probably part of the problem.

The script also seems to expect an installation of the MRE (Mozilla Runtime Environment) Is this it?

There's no README file, no LICENSE file, no docs of any kind. It'd be nice to have the dependencies identified.

Anyone else getting it running on Fedora Core 1? With or without Mozilla 1.7a? With or without the MRE/GRE?

Still hoping for the best...

Re:Not running on Fedora Core 1

[mchappee]

I did the same. If you're getting a complaint about libstdc++.so.3 then do this:
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3

After that it ran. No symbol mismatches.

Matthew

Re:Not running on Fedora Core 1

[mshiltonj]

I did the same. If you're getting a complaint about libstdc++.so.3 then do this:

ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3

That was the problem, and after making that link, I am able to start nvu. Thanks!

Mod parent up!

Re:dumb abbreviations

[vitalitychernobyl]

Radio announcers all over are still cursing Tim Berners-Lee for that one.
That's because they are even dumber than the abreviation and haven't figured out the one syllable slang replacement (dub dub dub)

Re:Where is the open source?

[glazou]

Hi there; I am Daniel Glazman, the lead engineer on Nvu project. The only reason why the source is not here _today_ is because we are totally overloaded. We got, in the last weeks, a so increasing number of requests for a preview version that we wanted/needed FIRST OF ALL to address that request. Hey, if we release nothing, /.ers say it's a fake project and when we release something, I read complaints ;-)

More seriously, we're only humans and we gave higher priority to the test package, just because much more people care about that... We hope to be able to release the source by the end of this week.

More info about the missing Windows dlls or linux libs is available from my blog. Thanks.

Re:Where is the open source?

[a.koepke]

It's based on Mozilla Composer and that program's GPL'ed.

Since when is Mozilla releasing stuff under GPL?

All their projects are released under the Mozilla Public License.

Re:Where is the open source?

[Finuvir]

Mozilla is in the middle of moving all of their code (with the permission of contributers) to a GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-licence. The Mozillazine article Relicensing of Majority of Mozilla Codebase to Begin Soon has the details.

Nvu Source now available

[glazou]

The title says it all. MPL/GPL/LGPL as promised. Get it there.