Enkele dagen geleden alweer is de Preview Release van versie 1.0 van Nvu uitgekomen. Nvu is een Web Authoring System, ontwikkeld door Linspire en draait onder Windows, Linux en MacOS X. De directe concurrenten van dit pakket zijn de programma's als Microsoft FrontPage en Macromedia Dreamweaver. Het grote verschil dat direct op te merken is tussen deze pakketen is open source/closed source en de kosten voor het gebruik. Nvu is gebaseerd op de code base van Mozilla Composer en heeft als richtlijn om gemakkelijk in gebruik te zijn, ook voor de niet technisch onderlegde gebruiker. Het changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
Changelog:Known problems
- Connection settings were not saving proxy ports.
- changes in About dialog.
- Inline Spell Checker enabled by default.
- new dialog allowing to disable the Inline Spell Checker when the user switches from Source mode to another Normal/AllTags/Preview.
- added Charles Cooke's User Guide in Help menu.
- copy and paste in the source view fixed
- support for HTML 4.01 Strict and Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict and Transitional
- new persistent checkboxes in File > New dialog
- new prefs in Tools > Preferences > New Page Settings
- prefs is always honoured, including launch time for the first created blank document
- UI elements not allowed by the DTD of the current document are disabled
- new Help contents, contributed by KDS Sahambi
- small toolbar icons by default
- Font Face dropdown menu moved to second format toolbar to keep a compact window
- PHP and comments now hidden when located between table cells/rows/etc, ie in places where visibility would break the table layout.
- it was impossible to remove a form element from the Form dialog.
- on linux, dropping a file on the source view inserted an image or a link in the source
- default theme's icon and preview were not displayed
- it was impossible to revert to default theme
- fixed 0.90 regression from 0.81: it was impossible to launch nvu < url >
- a lot of minor bug fixes
- in XHTML documents, Nvu 1.0PR serializes empty script (for external scripts) in the form < script src="..."> with no end tag. This is perfectly valid XML, of course, but
an old piece of crapa browser called MSIE chokes on it, of course. To avoid that, tweak those elements in the source view to give them a content, for exemple a whitespace char.
