Nvu

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Nvu (pronounced "N-view") is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite. It is intended to be an open source equivalent to proprietary software like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver and is one of the primary WYSIWYG editors for Linux. Nvu is designed to be easy for non-technical computer users. Knowledge of HTML or CSS is not required.

The project was started by and is sponsored by Linspire (formerly Lindows). To take the lead development role for Nvu, Linspire hired Daniel Glazman, former Netscape Communications Corporation employee and currently CEO/Founder of Disruptive Innovations.

Nvu is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, although it can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.

Nvu may sometimes be spelt "N|vu" to simulate the line in the logo, much like CNET (the tech news website) is often written as "C|Net" to mimic the logo.

1 Development
2 Release history
3 See also
4 External links

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Development

Daniel Glazman is currently working on a major upgrade to NVU's CSS editing component, which will be called CaScadeS II.

The original plan in June 2005 was to merge back the numerous changes into Mozilla Composer's source code tree. Since then the Mozilla suite has been discontinued (then reintroduced as SeaMonkey), and no one managed (or possibly even desired) to merge the NVU code back into Composer. It is speculated that NVU's focus will be directed towards porting Nvu to XULRunner rather than merging it into SeaMonkey as an updated Composer component.

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