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Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla 1.7 rc3; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.

Just like Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Thunderbird, respectively the new browser and the new mail user agent by Mozilla.org, Nvu is a standalone tool. It means it runs independently of any other Gecko-based tool and does not contain the other applications from the Mozilla Application Suite. Hence its small size and fast speed.

With Nvu, all the sites you have specified in your Publishing Settings become browsable in a sidebar. You can get a tree view of a site, à la Explorer's folders pane, or a one-dir-only view, à la Explorer's directory view. It is also possible to filter files and show all files, or only HTML documents or image files. The browsing area also allows to show for each file its size and the date of last modification. In the near future, one will be able to remove a file, create a new directory or remove an existing directory.

Nvu 0.3 The site manager can now handle local filesystems and the associated Publishing Site Settings dialog was simplified.

Nvu allows you to create HTML templates, specifying yourself the modifications a web author will be allowed to make if he/she creates a new document based on such a template. Editable areas, optional areas, repeatable areas, movable areas. The rest of the document will appear read-only to the web author and no change will be possible.

In the near future, this feature will be coupled to the Site Manager and updates of a template will be automatically applied to all documents based on that template.

Composer was far behind other HTML editors and offered only a very basic color picker. Nvu has a new extended colorpicker, more conformant to what KDE users are used to. Set a color from its red blue and green components, or its hue saturation and brightness. Or just use your mouse to pick up the color you want.

One of Mozilla's killer feature is now available in Nvu! Have one window only on your screen and edit several documents at once, each document having its own Undo/Redo stack! Just glance at the tabs to know if a document needs to be saved or not! Use it, and you'll never want an editor without tabs again.

Nvu 0.3Nvu makes the application of CSS to a document easy. YoGet u can now customize Nvu's toolbar to add a dropdown menu listing all classes "defined" in the stylesheets attached to the edited document. Using that dropdown menu, you can apply a class to a textual selection (if the selection is not collapsed) or to the enclosing block (if the selection is collapsed). The same dropdown menulist also allows to remove a class.

If you prefer direct assignment of a class or ID to a given element, Nvu can do that too. Just right-click on the element's tag in the structure toolbar and apply/remove a class/ID.

Nvu 0.3Nvu was very (even very very) bad on editing Definition Lists (DL, DT, DD elements). It now handles them correctly, switching automatically between DT and DD when you press the return key.

CaScadeS, the well-known CSS editor add-on to Mozilla Composer, is integrated into Nvu. Create stylesheets easily and manage the styles attached to your documents. Full-powered by Gecko, of course, you can see '"live" your style settings applied to the document you're editing.

CaScadeS, the CSS editor, was designed to allow inline styling of arbitrary elements without having to create a stylesheet. With Nvu, right-click on any element in the hierarchical toolbar at the bottom of the window and set directly its style properties.

You can apply all CSS text, background, border, box and aural properties.

Never argue again in Bugzilla in favor or against new toolbar buttons in Composer because there is or there is no room left in the toolbar! Just customize your toolbar and show only the buttons you want/need. And if you really want more buttons than your screen's width can contain, just create a new toolbar.

Speaking of customizable toolbars, two new buttons for <em> and <strong> are available.. A new font-family dropdown menu, similar to the Format > Font menu, is also available for toolbars.

Of course, it is easily extensible and in the future you'll be able to create your own buttons.

Do we need to say more? Yes, forms, finally!

Take advantage from a XUL-based UI to edit all your forms, and edit all your form elements.

That's only a beginning but Nvu contains some machinery to get rid of most of those annoying <br> we use to see in Composer. Combined with the ability to call W3C's HTML validator from within Nvu - and a in the future to call to W3C's CSS validator - you'll make valid, clean documents. Nvu 0.3And to be sure about it, we already integrate a real markup cleaner

When you create a new link to an external resource, or when you edit an existing link, you can now add XHTML Friends Network information to say that the owner of that resource is someone you know, you met, you work with or even you love.

In a complex page layout, you often need to see visible carriage returns and block borders. Nvu can now do that for you.

And of course, everything is controlled by a CSS stylesheet so you can customize those marks and replace them by your own.