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Thursday 2 October 2008

General - 08:45 - #

On prend les mêmes (trolls) et on recommence

Bon, BlueGriffon a tellement libéré les trolls habituels que j'en ai fermé les commentaires sur l'annonce de lancement de BlueGriffon. Privilège de de ma nationalité, ils sont pour la plupart francophones, d'où la langue de ce billet. Florilège :

  • le logo est moche (stop ranting, start drawing, eh !)
  • y'a encore rien de concret (mais il suffit de charger le source par svn et compiler pour avoir du concret, certes encore très très jeune)
  • c'est du Web 2.0 et du buzz (Nvu a 3,5 millions d'usagers dans le monde sans buzz, a fini recommandé par le Washington Post, vous croyez vraiment que j'ai besoin de buzz ?)
  • y'a un TM et c'est mal, berk, c'est pas libre et tout, ça pue (arrêtez de me pomper l'air : "Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.")
  • y'a rien de novateur (vous devriez apprendre à lire du code...)
  • le site est moche (je reconnais donner la priorité au code et au produit ; pour la vitrine, on a un peu de temps devant nous ; ce qui compte vraiment c'est le produit et son code non ?)
  • pour le moment je reste avec KompoZer (mais évidemment ! Ai-je dit que KompoZer, dont j'ai quand même écrit 99.9% du front-end, est un mauvais produit ? Mais je vous garantis qu'il sera ravalé au rang de fossile d'une ère révolue dès que BlueGriffon va gagner en puissance)

BlueGriffon n'est jamais que le 5ème éditeur Wysiwyg dans lequel je me lance. Grif, Netscape Composer, AOL Anvil, Nvu, BlueGriffon. Vous verrez dans BlueGriffon plein de features qu'aucun autre éditeur Web n'a. L'une d'elles, une base pour les autres, est d'ailleurs déjà implémentée. Vous n'aurez pas besoin d'attendre trois ans pour voir les dernières nouveautés CSS intégrées (essayez donc de faire des CSS Transformations avec Dreamweaver ou Web Expression). Et l'éditeur est en MPL. Alors merde aux trolls, non ?

Nota bene : les équipes de localisations, en particulier françaises, avaient fait merveille pour Nvu et le succès global de Nvu est aussi à mettre à leur crédit. Flore, Bob, vous êtes partant pour BlueGriffon j'espère ?-)

Tuesday 30 September 2008

Mozilla - 10:04 - #

BlueGriffon™

BlueGriffon logoIn the beginning was Netscape Gold. Then Mozilla Composer. From the ashes of Netscape and the code of Mozilla Composer came Nvu. Nvu had a cousin, KompoZer. But all this tools now belong to History and are extinct or on path to extinction.

In the meantime, Mozilla brought Firefox to the masses and its rendering engine, Gecko, has the power to fuel a next-generation wysiwyg editor for the World Wide Web. This editor is BlueGriffon™. Stay tuned !

Tuesday 6 November 2007

Nvu - 17:41 - #

Composer

I have good news for all of you using Nvu or Kompozer, all of you requesting a successor to Nvu, a new, more modern, more robust, more powerful editor companion to Firefox. I am immensely happy to announce that we found a new partner to give a descendance to Nvu. More news later, stay tuned, it's going to be exciting !

Wednesday 17 October 2007

Nvu - 12:58 - #

Nvu, Kompozer, Composer

I keep receiving a lot of emails/questions about Nvu and its descendants. So here are a few answers :

  • yes, I know that Nvu was impossible to download from nvu.com. I pinged Linspire and they updated the page.
     Everything should be ok now.
  • no, I have no more relationship with Linspire about Nvu.
  • yes, the name Nvu and its logo are protected.
  • no, I'm not helping on Kompozer and yes, I dropped Nvu entirely.
  • no, Composer is not dead at all, it's only evolving slowly because I'm working on it on my spare time.
  • no, I don't think Kompozer is going to live a long time. Kompozer is only a chrome bug-fix of Nvu and it's still based on the Mozilla 1.7 codebase. It's obsolete. Compared to Composer, Nvu and Kompozer will look like dinosaurs
  • yes, Composer will be MPL.
  • yes, Composer's code is only minimally based on Nvu's.
  • no, Composer is only a code name. The final name is not chosen yet.

More questions ? Add a comment.

Monday 9 October 2006

Nvu - 09:54 - #

Composer progress

A short note for those who still think I am a dictator, closing Nvu's code, or leaving Nvu users in limbos : I am glad to welcome a new peer for Composer : Fabien Cazenave, aka KaZé, who forked KompoZer from Nvu 1.0. He'll provide code (through the usual r/sr process) and features.

Sunday 17 September 2006

Nvu - 20:29 - #

Mozilla Composer features

The list is almost ready, and the roadmap is in the pipe.

For those who did not get the message :Nvu 1.0 is - for me - a dead end. Just like Seamonkey was left to the community, I am glad to leave Nvu 1.0 codebase to Kazé who started integrating bug fixes but I remind him that Nvu is a trademark by Linspire Inc. That's good he used a new name, Kompozer, for his fork. I just cannot work on Nvu 1.0 and Mozilla Composer, its xulrunner-based successor at the same time.

Furthermore, for Mozilla Composer, I need SVG. I need CSS columns. I need xulrunner. I need stuff that don't exist in the old gecko-1.7 codebase.

Mozilla Composer won't be just a xulrunner- and gecko1.8-based revamping of Nvu 1.0, it will be something totally new, entirely rewritten, and the feature list will make Nvu look like a prehistoric web editor, which it is ;-)

Note: posts on this blog about Mozilla Composer will remain in the "nvu" category.

Friday 15 September 2006

Nvu - 11:13 - #

Kompozer

Kompozer is a fork of Nvu 1.0, fantasai and Jean-Charles Moriaud have mailed me about. Bug fixes here and there, little UI changes. So here's a little clarification:

  • no, Kompozer's lead never let me know about it. I just found a post in nvu forums hosted by geckozone he did but he never had the politeness to let me know about it. Since I am busy and rarely dive into fora - whatever the forum - I was not aware of Kompozer. But the guy is not far away, here in France, and we speak the same language. How hard, and well, sorry to say, how lame.
  • No, I don't think the guy contacted the copyright holder, Linspire Inc., either and that's quite unpolite too even if he has the full right granted by the license to do what he did.
  • no, I don't really appreciate when he calls Nvu bugs "glazbugs". I take that as an insult.
  • yes, his work is a good idea, but no, I don't think this is going to be a very useful mid- to long-term investment since the nvu 1.0 codebase is scheduled to die and be replaced by a xulrunner-based application anyway. It's gecko1.7-based and that's too old.
  • yes, I am working on that new app

Open-source and "free" licenses are not a known excuse for tactlessness.