Software update: Nvu 0.30

Lindows Inc. has started developing Nvu, pronounced N-view, which is a Web Authoring System. This program is based on the Mozilla Composer code base and aims to be easy to use, even for the non-technical user. The development team recently released version 0.30 with the following changelog:

ChangeLog:

• based on Mozilla 1.7 RC3
• Tip of the Day widget added (code contribution by Philippe Goetz)
• The site manager can now handle local sites through file:/// URLs (see 0.20 Known Issues)
• Publishing Site Settings dialog has been modified, a lot of people complaining about it
• Table Insertion dialog modified to allow one-click insertion; values ​​in the “Precisely” panel are now persistent
• Writing direction control added to Format menu and to customizable toolbars
• Class assignment dropdown menu to the selection added to customizable toolbars
• ID and class assignment menus added to contextl click in structure toolbar
• Correct handling of DT and DD elements; added corresponding buttons to customizable toolbars
• Format > Font menu and corresponding toolbar’s dropdown menu now query only once the system’s font list
• Spell checker enabled
• Markup cleaner added under Tools menu
• File extension is handled correctly again in the filepicker (see 0.20 Known Issues)
• The user can now specify a document’s language and writing direction through the document properties; default language and default writing direction can be specify through Preferences.
• MadeWithNvu smart widget
• An online bug report/suggestion page can be reached through the Help menu (warning, this page will be available only June 18th)

Known issues:

• The Publishing Site Settings dialog is missing a button to select a local directory as the root of a site for local HD browsing in the site manager.

[break]The following two downloads are ready:
Windows
Linux – Tarball built on Linspire (Debian k2.4) gcc/g++ 2.95.4