Daniel Glazman has released (in a correctly packaged file :-)) NVU O.41 for Mac OS X. NVU is a site editor whose goal is to become the FrontPage for Linux. It looks a lot like Mozilla/Netscape composer, because it's based on the same code. It has more features thought because you can directly edit your pages and don't need to fetch/push them to your isp's server.You can check the validity of your pages, nvu is CSS aware etc ... At this momment Nvu does not work on Mac os X 10.2.x, this problem has plagued Mozilla and Camino back in January, thanks Apple for making this happen :-(.
I have a couple of bugs I wanted to report and found the developer's site, but no bugzilla :-). I don't really forums so I did not post my glitches, but will do here instead :
1) Tool bar access is not complete, if the window is not large enough some icons from the tool bar are unavailable. Camino solves this by rearanging icons on two rows if the window is too small.
2) The About box is a sheet. It should have it's own window so It can be viewed when no windows are open.
3) About NVU is present also in the help menu, this is not necessary at all.
4) Command (Pomme) Q does not quit. It close the window first, you need to press it twice to quit the application.
So far so good I've only played with nvu for 10 minutes. I'de happily would do more QA on it if a bugzilla was up. Also I will use it to build my v2.0 of my icelandic site. Also Daniel, thank you for making a Mac OS X build of NVU. I will recommand it to my father who uses Netscape's composer.
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