Newsforge reviews of Nvu
By glazou on Thursday 8 April 2004, 09:32 - Nvu - Permalink
Newsforge has a quite long review of Nvu. They tested only a 0.15 even if 0.20 went out a few days ago, and then logically complain about the lack of templates (that's in 0.20...) and so on, but still, worth a read.
Thanks basic for the hint!
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"0.15 even if 0.20 went out a few days ago0.15 even if 0.20 went out a few days ago"
perhaps it takes more than a few day to write a review.
berkut: "a few days" = "a couple of weeks"...
Anyway testing beta versions is always somewhat critical because of this.
Daniel:
Thanks for taking the time to read my review. Please accept my congratulations on what your team has already accomplished. I am in the process of writing a brief reply to your comment on newforge if you are interested. I also intend to keep an eye on this project and write a follow-up review at some point in the future. Please feel free to email any corrections and/or new information to me and I will make sure to respond.
Regards,
Barry Smith
Perso, le seul truc qui m'empêche réellement d'utiliser NVU, c'est les sauts du curseur quand on passe du wysiwyg au source et vice-versa.
Quand on édite un fichier énorme, c'est pénible (le curseur n'est pas à l'endroit du source qui correspond au wysiwyg et vice-versa) vu que le curseur n'est pas là où on est justement en train de bosser. M'enfin.
I'm sure you already know this, but Mozillazine also picked up the review.
www.mozillazine.org/talkb...
Mr. Smith may also be interested in the commentary.
By the way, I broke with journalistic tradition and expressed my opinion. When talking about software, it is difficult to determine ethics.
--Sam
P.S I write for thespartacus.org, an online high school newspaper. I am also on the web team. Two of us (including the top webmaster) has a copy of NVU. We really appreciate it, and look forward to watching it grow. I would appreciate documentation on how to use the template feature, and whether it is advanced enough for my needs at present. I primarily want to define styles for other journalists to use. I do not understand the first thing about creating a template.. (is it a directory? what file format is the template in? (what extension?) Can an external stylesheet be included with a template? How do I create one?)
--Sam
P.S If I know the file format, I can remotely host a template.
Juste quelques menues suggestions :
J'utilise nvu 0.2 ;
-Serait-il possible d'avoir un enregistrement à la volée de plusieurs pages ? Je me suis retrouvé à travailler avec plusieurs pages donc autant d'onglets et une option d'enregistrement du genre : "sauver les modificiations sur toutes les pages" serait la bienvenue.
Pour l'éditeur cascades :
-Est-il possible de rajouter, pour les images, la propriété background-attachment (parce que l'option scroll/don't scroll ne fonctionne pas ou je ne l'ai pas comprise) ?
-Est-il possible de rajouter des options pour les listes :
list-style-type : square, circle, lower-alpha, etc ?
a+
Sorry, but I have to say that this is very poor article.
An article about a webdevelopment app should not look like this.
The author does not compare important things in web design but
talks about design and other not so important aspects.
First, don't ever compare N|vu to MS Frontpage, which is popular
for its bad coding style and which is used to stip every tag it
does not like, adding tens of others it likes. Please, take a look
at a more professional app like Dreamweaver and try to compare
N|vu with it, as it is an industry standart nowadays.
And review should contain a lot of remarks about:
1. Coding style, standards compliance (XHTML strict, CSS2)
2. Ease of use and ease of editing tables and layer, images.
3. Ability to insert different kinds of multimedia (Flash, shockwave etc.) in a document with ease
4. CSS editor, and how CSS is displayed in the page. Live preview. (The MOST important)
5. Site manager and what can it do
6. Speed, syntax highlighting, tag autocompletion (Both HTML and CSS) (The second MOST important)
Actually being a webdeveloper, I can comment on Dreamweaver here
about the points I wrote above:
1. Poor, no strict XHTML compliance
2. Great ease of use
3. Great
4. CSS editor is good, but live preview sucks on CSS heavy sites (even on MX 2004)
5. Site manager is great
6. Speed is OK, syntax highlighting is also OK, HTML tag autocompletion is great, no CSS tag autocompletion yet.
And as I have seen from Mozilla composer, it beats Dreamweaver about the Live Preview thing
and displays correcly all CSS heavy sites while designing. Haven't tried N|vu, but I think if the author
implements something like a global property bar for everything (selected objects) and good auto completion,
CSS editor and a good (editable) syntax highlighting N|vu would absolutely rock! I actually started to download
the latest version to make a better review maybe
I wish him good luck!