a program called NVU...
By glazou on Wednesday 22 June 2005, 17:02 - Nvu - Permalink
Excerpt from A week in Soe's life:
" Today I ate breakfast and brushed my teeth and went to school. At school I was the only boy because my friend Nikashi was absent. I felt kind of lonely because rest of my class are girls. We had Reading in the first period and we learnt about blogs. Then it was recess so I went outside and did nothing. When it was lunch I usually sit with Nikashi but he wasn't here so i sat with my UI freinds. Then we had playground time so I went outside to play I played basketball with the 7th graders. Then we had computer and we are making a homepage using a program called NVU. Then I went home and ate dinner and now I'm typing my blog. I will now take a bath then sleep. "
Then in another post, the same child writes:
" Last was Computer. We are making our own websites in a program called Nvu (pretty much like microsoft word; just more complicated). "
La vérité sort toujours de la bouche des enfants, malheureusement.
Comments
Ha! ha! ha! Excellent!
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Great! It's always encouraging to see this sort of stuff.
Because their minds are not corroded by the day-to-day life yet!
Trop drôle !!!
oof, that's kinda bad when people describe your software "like microsoft word; just more complicated".
Maybe the UI needs some work?
this is cool. so in Japanese schools NVU has already found its way in.
looking forward to NVU 1.0.
btw its not the same kid.
first post is by Soe and second is by Yukiko.
Best blog ever. It rocked..
stupid brat: he spent a whole day with many chicks and he complained because the only other boy is missing
Nvu more complicated than Word, well that's not untrue, but Word's html is simply crap, he should try OOo. But well, comparing Nvu to Word is wrong as Nvu is an HTML editor and Word a word-processing software, compared to Frontpage, Nvu UI is by far simpler and better organized.
I don't think it's wrong to compare NVU and MS Word if we take a beginner's point of view. Word is a program to write things then print them. NVU is a program to write things and put them on the web. That's what many people think and that's what I thought back in 1997 when I first tried a HTML editor. Sure, to understand the slightly more subtile differences between using a text processor and a HTML editor, you don't need to be a genius. But you begin to be a "poser user".
The point is, to promote NVU, you need to include the fact many people will compare it to MS Word.