Download Nvu 0.80

Nvu is a so-called Web Authoring System of the company Linspire Inc. for the Windows platform, the Linux platform, and the MacOS X platform. The direct competitors of this package are programs such as Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. The big difference that is immediately noticeable between these packages is open source/closed source and the cost of use.

Nvu is based on Mozilla Composer’s code base and aims to be easy to use, even for the non-tech-savvy user. The development team, led by Daniel Glazman, has introduced a new version that has been given 0.80 as the version number. The list of changes looks like this:

• express XHTML 1.0 support (see checkbox in File > New dialog)
  WARNING: to be able to edit an XHTML file, its MIME type must be application/xhtml+xml. It is then highly recommended to use locally the extension *.xhtml and check that your remote server serves XHTML files with the correct MIME type. Ask your ISP if you don’t understand the above.
• line numbering in source view
• support for
  WARNING: form is deprecated by the PHP Group and is NOT supported
  <% ... %> form for asp/jsp is NOT supported
• support for comments
• double-click on a PHP/Comment in Normal view to edit it; use Insert menu to create one
• small icons in main toolbar (Customize toolbar, checkbox is in panel)
• all strings now localizable
• when a document is published and if the relevant directory is shown in the site manager, its entry/icon is added if it’s not already there
• 2 security bugs
• site manager was not able to work correctly if the remote server allows to climb above home directory
• Horizontal Line properties were not working, Image Dialog was partially horked
• source view was deleting some white spaces
• rulers could not resize tables with cellspacing=”0″
• on slow machines, the Site Manager remained blank on first launch because the pinger dialog is modal
• a lot of minor bugs including key accelarator for copy/paste on Mac OS X

Known Issues

• You have to quit twice on Mac OS X, we are working on it