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1 Nvu  



1.1  Development  





1.2  Standards compliance  





1.3  Release history  





1.4  Shift to KompoZer  







2 KompoZer  



2.1  Standards compliance  







3 See also  





4 References  





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Mozilla Composer
Developer(s)Mozilla
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
TypeHTML editor
LicenseMPL, GPL, LGPL
Websitewww-archive.mozilla.org/editor/ Edit this on Wikidata

Mozilla Composer is the former free and open-source HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite (the predecessor to SeaMonkey). It was used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents, and available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Composer was a graphical WYSIWYG HTML editor to view, write and edit HTML source code.[1]

In September 2008 Daniel Glazman announced a new WYSIWYG HTML editor, BlueGriffon, written from scratch and based on Mozilla Gecko and XULRunner.[2]

SeaMonkey, the community-driven successor to Mozilla Suite, includes an HTML editor named Composer that is developed from the Mozilla Composer code contained in the original Mozilla Suite.[1]

Nvu[edit]

Nvu
Developer(s)Linspire, Daniel Glazman
Final release

1.0[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 28 June 2005

Preview release

1.0PR[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 5 April 2005

PlatformCross-platform[which?]
TypeHTML editor
LicenseMPL, GPL, LGPL
Websitewww.nvu.com

Nvu (pronounced "N-view") is a WYSIWYG HTML editor,[5] based on Mozilla Composer. It is intended to be an open-source alternative to proprietary software like Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver. As a WYSIWYG editor, it is designed to be easy for novice users, and does not require any knowledge of HTMLorCSS to use. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux and incorporates Cascading Style Sheets support and other improvements from software company Disruptive Innovations. Nvu was the brainchild of Kevin Carmony, CEO for Linspire, who wanted an easy-to-use, WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux users. Under Carmony's direction, Linspire started and sponsored Nvu, hiring Daniel Glazman, former Netscape Communications Corporation employee, to be the lead developer.

Development[edit]

The original plan in June 2005 was to merge back the numerous changes into Mozilla Composer's source code tree.[citation needed] Since then the Mozilla Suite has been discontinued (then reintroduced as SeaMonkey), and no one has merged the Nvu code back into Composer.

Standards compliance[edit]

Nvu CSS editor

Nvu complies with the W3C's web standards. By default, pages are created in accordance to HTML 4.01 Transitional and use CSS for styling, but the user can change the settings and choose between:

The application includes a built-in HTML validator, which uploads pages to the W3C's HTML Validator and checks for compliance.

Release history[edit]

Shift to KompoZer[edit]

Daniel Glazman, the lead developer of Nvu, announced on September 15, 2006, that he had stopped official development on Nvu and that he was developing a successor as a Mozilla.org project. It is written from scratch and based on Mozilla trunk Gecko 1.9 and XULRunner. PHP and CSS would be supported. A community-driven fork, KompoZer, maintains Nvu codebase and fixes bugs until a successor to Nvu is released. Glazman's project is called BlueGriffon.

KompoZer[edit]

Kompozer
Original author(s)Fabien Cazenave
Final release

0.7.10[6] Edit this on Wikidata / 5 October 2007

Preview release

0.8b3[7] Edit this on Wikidata / 26 September 2010

PlatformCross-platform
TypeHTML editor
LicenseMPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Websitekompozer.net

KompoZer is a discontinued open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on the Nvu.[8] KompoZer was forked as a community-driven project with development coordinated through SourceForge.

KompoZer's WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view.

The most recent version is KompoZer 0.8 beta 3, released February 2010, using Gecko 1.8.1. The stable version was 0.7.10, released in August 2007. The only regular developer said in June 2011 that development "is stalled at the moment".[9]

As a 32-bit application, it is no longer supported on macOS Catalina and later versions.

Standards compliance[edit]

KompoZer complies with the W3C's web standards. By default, pages are created in accordance to HTML 4.01 Strict and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for styling, but the user can change the settings and choose between:

The application can call on the W3C HTML validator, which uploads pages to the W3C Markup Validation Service and checks for compliance.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b The SeaMonkey® Project. Seamonkey-project.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
  • ^ "BlueGriffon Announcement". Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  • ^ "Nvu Download Page". Archived from the original on 30 June 2005.
  • ^ "Nvu Download Page". Archived from the original on 15 April 2005.
  • ^ Nvu home page
  • ^ https://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/files/current/0.7.10/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • ^ https://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/files/current/0.8b3/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • ^ Relph-Knight, Terry. "FOSS v proprietary software: Website creation". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  • ^ One Year At INRIA - Kaz'hack. Kazhack.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
  • External links[edit]


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