[desktop-discuss] HTML Composer revisited

[Bob Doolittle]

On 10/19/06, brian.lu <Brian.Lu at sun.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, there isn't a HTML composer as good as Dreamweaver in
> unix world.
>
> Nvu:  The development  work  seems to be stopped after 1.0 was released
> and it has very limited features.



That doesn't seem to be the case currently:
http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?Nvu


In summary, we don't plan to deliver  Nvu and Seamonkey on solaris.



Is it too late to reconsider nvu given that it seems to have acquired
new life?

I feel a desktop is incomplete without an HTML authoring tool.

Thanks,
   Bob


We
> are trying to get permission to contribute seamonkey nightly build
> to the Mozilla community, user can download and install the seamonkey
> nightly build on his/her solaris machine by that time.
>
> Brian
>
> Calum Benson wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Oct 2006, at 10:47, Tao Chen wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/19/06, Bob Doolittle <bobdrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>>  Do people feel that vi/xemacs (or Star/OpenOffice,
> >>>  or bluefish) is sufficient, or should OpenSolaris provide
> >>>  a good WYSIWYG HTML Composer as part of the
> >>>  standard desktop?
> >>
> >> I don't know what professionals (webpage developers) use
> >
> > Dreamweaver and GoLive (both owned by Adobe since the Macromedia
> > takeover) are pretty much the only game(s) in town there, but of
> > course they're Mac and Windows only.
> >
> > As for Solaris options, I'd guess SeaMonkey's Composer is most likely
> > to be under active development for the time being, but it presumably
> > still lacks some of the features that nvu added to Mozilla Composer.
> > (I haven't seen it to check.)
> >
> >> However, I understand a HTML WYSIWYG composer is a must for broader
> >> audience, when Solaris is used as a desktop OS, in the future :)
> >
> > Well, I guess that's an interesting debate in itself.  I suspect the
> > days of homebrew websites are already very much on the decline, with
> > the advent of blogs, wikis, myspace, flickr et al.  So there are
> > probably fewer and fewer HTML-illiterati out there who need to put
> > together a web page in the old-fashioned way.  (Even Apple's new iWeb
> > application doesn't actually let you edit *any* HTML-- it's 100%
> visual.)
> >
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> >
> > --CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
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> >
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> >
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