Nvu - Definition and Overview

Nvu (pronounced "N-view") is a WYSIWYG Web authoring system, presently in public beta testing, based on the Composer component of Mozilla. 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 extremely easy for non-technical computer users. Knowledge of HTML or CSS is not required.

Nvu is being written by Daniel Glazman, former Netscape Communications Corporation employee and currently of the Mozilla Foundation and Disruptive Innovations. The project is sponsored by Linspire (formerly Lindows).

Nvu is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, althought it can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime. Mozilla Composer is still under development as a part of the Mozilla suite for other platforms.

Version history

• 0.8 (1.0b3) was pre-released on February 2, 2005
• 0.7 (1.0b2) was pre-released on January 6, 2005
• 0.6 (1.0b) was pre-released on November 26, 2004
• 0.5 was released on October 6, 2004
• 0.4 was released on August 10, 2004
• 0.3 was released on June 11, 2004.
• 0.20 was released on March 25, 2004
• 0.1 was released on February 4, 2004

Competitors

• Adobe GoLive, available for Mac and Windows.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Microsoft FrontPage

External link

• Official home page (http://www.nvu.com)
• Download page with release notes (http://nvu.com/download.html)
• Developers' site (http://www.nvudev.org/)
• Portable Nvu (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_nvu/) - An USB drive-friendly version.
• MozillaNews Interviews Daniel Glazman, Nvu Developer (http://mozillanews.org/index.php3?article=256a27eb095d6ed381263a374c8366f0) (MozillaNews)
• Blog for head developer Daniel Glazman (http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?Nvu)(filtered to display Nvu content only)
• Nvu User Support Forums (http://forum.nvudev.org)