NVU description
NVU is a free web development system, that allows visual (WYSIWYG) editing of web pages, as well as code editing

NVU is a complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site easy as 1-2-3.

Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers.

Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.

Just like Mozilla Firebird or Mozilla Thunderbird, respectively the new browser and the new mail user agent by Mozilla.org, Nvu is a standalone tool.

It means it runs independently of any other Gecko-based tool and does not contain the other applications from the Mozilla Application Suite. Hence its small size and fast speed.

It offers a tabbed interface with quick access to frequently used tags, (Mozilla) browser preview and multiple wizards to create commonly used page elements.

It provides an easy to use environment for beginners, as well as more advanced users, however lacks more professional features like syntax coloring, scripting support and others.

Does not include any documentation.

Warning: you must remove your existing Nvu profile before running Nvu 0.41. On Linux, delete the .nvu (dot-nvu) directory located in your home dir. On Windows, delete the directory c:Document and SettingsApplication DataNvu.

What's New in This Release:

· based on Mozilla 1.7
· horizontal and vertical rulers allowing to resize all element with the mouse, including table columns and rows
· command line argument "nvu -edit " is now accepted and functional
· HTML validator menu entry was not correctly calling an external browser to display W3C's validator. This is now fixed and the result is shown inside Nvu itself.
· contextual menu on tabs allowing to close a tab or close all other tabs
· it's now possible to create tables w/o default vertical or horizontal alignment
· window title was not updated when switching between two tabs, this is now fixed
· context-click on a toolbar now allows to customize the toolbar, like in Firefox and Thunderbird
· setting image size through Image Properties dialog was not working, this is now fixed
· switching between two tabs was losing the selection, this is now fixed
· new About dialog, à la Firefox and Thunderbird
· Document Inspector