On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:55 +0100, Clayton wrote:
I'm afraid I would strongly recommend *not* using Nvu. It produces awful markup. It tends to use spans for everything, but doesn't delete them correctly if you change the format (eg from bold to italic). You then end up with nested spans which produce unexpected visual results, and to fix this you have to go into the markup anyway.
I suggested Nvu to my son for a school project, but he got so frustrated with "why does this heading look different from that one, when I've told them both to be H1?" that I told him I would go through the markup and tidy it up for him. It took 3 hours to tidy up 4 or 5 pages, the markup was so awful. So never again! YMMV, of course.
This is exactly my experience. I used NVU once in the past year... I actually persisted with it for a while too. The nested span thing was a nightmare. Everything is fine-ish if you create the content, and then do the markup just once, but if you change your mind on anything, then the nesting gets out of control, and do it a few times and you webpage starts to do funny things.
I ended up dropping back to a plain text editor to clean things up (didn't have access to Linux for this work).
On Linux.. I almost always use Quanta+. The ability to chose raw code, or wysiwyg views is really nice.. and it (for me anyway) seamlessly switches back and forth as I need it to. My alternative to Quanta is Bluefish.
OpenOffice produces some fairly clean code. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org