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Introducing Nvu, A Web-Authoring Application

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-michael dept.

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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  1. That's just fucking great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    new open source WYSIWYG Web page creator/editor with FTP facilities

    Just when the world finally stopped caring about FrontPage and FrontPage look alikes and started implementing MovableType, pMachine and fully-GPLed WordPress and other content-management system for full blown sites, open source community comes up with something no one gives a fuck anymore, since we've moved on from FrontPage.

    Way to go, guys, innovation at its best. So in 5 years can I except a full framework for XML-driven clients (hint: Microsoft OneNote) being a new innovation??

    1. Re:That's just fucking great! by dedazo · · Score: 2, Insightful
      I fail to see how OneNote is relevant here. Perhaps you meant InfoPath? And even then it's irrelevant. It's an intranet forms engine.

      And BTW, not everyone wants to do blogs or portals. So more often than not, things like MT or Plone are overkill.

      --
      Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
  2. Re:That's just f*cking great! by LarryRiedel · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ... we've moved on from FrontPage.

    I think the primary potential value offered by Nvu is as a clean free WYSIWYG HTML/CSS page editor. I do not know of anything even yet on the horizon to make such a thing obsolete. Heck, I'm still waiting for correct CSS2 and PNG alpha channel support in IE... :-)

    Larry

  3. Say what you want about Lindows.com... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lindows.com takes lots of bullets from the Slashdot crowd, but it sure seem to me that Robertson and company actually deliver. Here's a list of things just in the last few months that Lindows.com has done:

    nVu released - Seems likea great product to rival Frontpage and is available for all Linux flavors and MSWin. Seems like Lindows.com paid for this whole thing. They seem to support lots of open source if you look at: http://lindows.com/opensource

    Desktop Linux Summit - Just announced that it will be held in April with sponsors such as Sun and Redhat. They are expecting 1000 people http://www.desktoplinux.org

    300,000 Laptops - Shipping 300,000 laptops at $699. This has to be the largest real deployment of desktop Linux. And unlike Sun's vapor announcement, they named the company, the model and the channel. Anyone know where you can buy one of these yet?

    Using P2P - They are first commercial company using P2P to distribute their software. I read this story on news.com. You can get LindowsLive from Bittorrent and other networks. See: lindows.com/p2p

    Standing up to the beast - They have a trial coming up to return the generic word "windows" to the public domain. I think they will win. See: http://lindows.com/mslawsuit

    Say what you want about Lindows.com marketing, but they're getting it done. desktop linux is happening because of these guys. they're also getting their machines sold in real stores, but I forget which ones (not just online).

  4. Re:Where is the open source? by glazou · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And I bet the slashdotting you are receiving is really helping, huh?

    I hope you find some pleasure attacking people without knowing them. Just ask other Mozillians, or my former Netscape colleagues : when I say the _only_ reason is time, the _only_ reason is time. The decision to make the source available with 0.1 was taken long before this /. post and your so friendly answer.