Nvu, meet KompoZer
One of the staples in the thriftmac collection is Nvu, an app for WYSIWYG web authoring. To call it a freeware version of Dreamweaver is a bit of a stretch, but it gives you a rough idea of how it works.
Apparently, as explained at Mozilla Links, development of Nvu stopped after it reached version 1.0. Unfortunately, that left it with a bunch of bugs. And, of course, no software deserves to forever languish at 1.0. Enter KompoZer. The name is lacking in, shall we say, elegance, but at least it takes Nvu to new levels with squashed bugs and better handling of CSS.
I’ve always believed the best way to build a website is with a good text editor and a solid education in XHTML and CSS. But if you feel that WYSIWYG is the way to go, and you’ve been struggling with Nvu, it may be time to move on to KompoZer.
Posted Thursday, October 4, 2007 in Open-source
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