Nvu progress 20040928
By glazou on Tuesday 28 September 2004, 12:44 - Nvu - Permalink
- XHTMLization, it'll probably take a full week.
Update: can load an XHTML doc, edit it in wysiwyg and get an XML source. Many bugs in serialization because of _moz_* attributes and special br elements. Problems with save and publish, problems with copy and paste, and so on
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Any schedule for back-porting changes to Mozilla? I'm still recommmending it as a simple, one-installation package for less knowledgeable users, but I'd like them to get a better-and-better-every-day HTML editor as well...
Daniel, I seem to recall there being some patches up in bugzilla to allow XHTML editing... are you using those, or redoing it all from scratch?
Boris: my patch goes far beyond that one, allowing to save as XHTML, create a new document conformant to HTML 4 Strict/Trans or XHTML 1.0 Strict/Trans. But of course, as you can easily understand it, switching the doctype is definitely not an easy thing to do... I am looking for simple options here but I doubt we'll find one.
I just noticed this from some bugzilla bugs i was tracking. THANK YOU DANIEL!
This is only absolute critical feature blocking me from using NVU on a daily basis.
any idea of when there will be a release with this included?
NVU is great. I use it in my personal web work without the need for XHTML.
When you achieve XHTML support NVU would make a great tool for CMS use in an Apache Cocoon (cocoon.apache.org) based web publishing system. We currently run Cocoon and need XHTML. We are testing Macromedia Contribute for XHTML editing, but Contribute lacks features that NVU has. Looking forward to XHTML enabled NVU!
Our agency is willing to test an XHTML build of NVU. Is there an XHTML build or source that I can build from? We understand that there may be problems, but we are willing to test and report bugs that we find.
Gary T. Schultz
Web Technical Administrator / GIS Coordinator
Wisconsin Department of Commerce
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Madison, WI
608-266-1283