On 1/7/06, Chris BONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad: > Is Nvu better than OOo 2? > I have been debating the idea of learning some html so that I might set up > a site. > My ISP allows so much space etc for a web site, so I thought that I might > put it up > as more info in this area about OOo etc.
Nvu is better for making HTML yes. Nvu is just a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor - not a complete office suite, so it's not like they are in direct competition. And since they are both cross-platform, free, and open source - there's no reason not to have both. But for making webpages, Nvu is much better - if for no other reason than it allows you to easily switch back and forth from the WYSIWYG mode to the source mode. I personally use the WYSIWYG mode to put the major layout together, then switch to source mode to do my fine tuning. Anymore, CMSes or Blogging tools are the way for end users to build websites, but offline WYSIWYG tools are still good for creating templates, static pages, and the like. One thing I don't like about Nvu is the use of <span>. It is just a term I don't use when writing HTML, and I don't really know when it decides to use it instead of <div> or paragraph controls or whatever. It even throws it in there, seemingly at random throughout a table. While the result on the page may be the same - it make it confusing to edit later. That all being said - Nvu is designed from the ground up to build websites - OOo is not. Nvu is based on the Composer in Mozilla, which came from Netscape, which puts the codebase as very mature (even though Nvu is just at 1.0 status in its name). Since it is based on the Mozilla project, it is not only mature, but familiar, even if you've never heard of Nvu before. One of the tell-tale signs that you shouldn't use OOo to make webpages - when OOo 2.0 was released - the HTML editor icon was removed. It's not promoted as a feature anymore, because it doesn't do a very good job on it. THe other things, yes - but not HTML. There are, IMHO, better programs for HTML - but they aren't cross-platform or open source. Some are free, but only on Windows or Mac. I haven't done much HTML on Linux, so I don't know much about Bluefish or the like. Hope that helps. Any further discusion of Nvu probably needs to be moved to [email protected] or offlist entirely. This list is just for questions about OpenOffice.org - this question qualified (is Nvu better than OOo) - but specifics about Nvu don't. They do qualify for [email protected] because they are about Open Source, which is listed in the discuss@ instructions. Have a good one! -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
