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Jason Joines

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Apr 27, 2006, 9:27:30 AM4/27/06
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We've been using Mozilla Composer, NVU, and SeaMonkey Composer for
quite some time as they are easy for our users to use and generate valid
HTML.

However, we're beginning to move all of our pages to at least XHTML
1.0 and perhaps XHTML 1.1, we can't use HTML 4.01 Transitional any longer.

While NVU has some support for XHTML 1.0, development seems to have
ceased. Since SeaMonkey has taken over what was Mozilla Composer, are
there any plans for XHTML support in SeaMonkey Composer?


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Robert Kaiser

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Apr 27, 2006, 10:45:10 AM4/27/06
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Jason Joines schrieb:

> While NVU has some support for XHTML 1.0, development seems to have
> ceased. Since SeaMonkey has taken over what was Mozilla Composer, are
> there any plans for XHTML support in SeaMonkey Composer?

Bascially, NVu is currently being rewritten as a new stand-alone
application once again called "Mozilla Composer", but that's huge effort
and may take quite a while (a few months before it's reasonably useable
at least).
That's basically the reason why NVu development seems to have ceased.

On the other hand, we have no dedicated developers caring about
SeaMonkey Composer, so no new development can be expected there at the
moment.
We already have talked to the main developer behind NVu and Mozilla
Composer, and maybe a future version of can reintegrate some of the new
work he is doing, but that's only some vague outlook, not even real
planning at this stage.

So for now, I think you'll have to stick with what NVu has to offer if
you want to keep using Mozilla-based tools for what you want to achieve.

The future might look better though, but don't expect any big things
before next year...

Robert Kaiser

Jason Joines

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Apr 28, 2006, 8:50:28 AM4/28/06
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Thanks for the information. We would prefer to continue using
Mozilla based products.

Just in case anyone reading this is in a similar situation, another
cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML editor we've been looking at is Amaya,
http://www.w3.org/Amaya. It's a great tool and generates nice clean
code. However, it's not as simple to use for those with no knowledge of
HTML and I'm not sure how well our users will take to it.

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