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Posted by Toby Inkster on 07/27/06 07:22
Huan wrote:
> What are your opinions about Nvu?
> My opinion is "not bad" but I haven't used anything else.
It's certainly one of the better WYSMAWYG[1] editors out there --
certainly better than using Frontpage, Word, or (heaven forbid!)
Publisher.
There are other WYSMAWYG tools that might give you a similar level
of quality in the finished pages, but not for the same price Nvu
does.
None of the current generation of WYSMAWYG editors will ever give
you anywhere near the same quality as pages hand-coded by someone
who knows what they're doing though. (Because their whole premise
is based on the idea that HTML is a visual language, and that
ideally all browsers should display a given page identically.)
> I found that every page I created from Nvu had this:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN">
That is most certainly broken.
> Do you think a secretarial type person could edit pages easily with
> Nvu, or will they mess up the markup trying to get it to look right
> in the GUI editor?
Yes to both!
> I think I'm going to get a lot [more] of grief because my pages
> are valid and display well in IE, Camino, Safari, and Opera (Mac),
> but they are unbearable in Frontpage's GUI editor, and Someone might
> try to come along after me and use Frontpage on them.
Explain to them that you can vouch for the quality of the pages that
you hand over at the end; but that if they break the pages by editing
them with inappropriate tools, or through lack of knowledge, you
cannot and should not be held accountable for this.
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