Software update: Nvu 1.0

Linspire has finally released the long-awaited version 1.0 of Nvu. Nvu is a Web Authoring program and should be seen as a direct competitor to programs such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. The program is based on the Mozilla Composer code base and has as a guideline to be easy to use, even for the non-technical user. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Change Log

• Fixed: Source view was wrapping at column 30
• Fixed: cannot outdent an identified list in CSS mode
• Fixed: changing the type of a list item in a Strict DTD-based document and CSS mode can lead to invalid markup
• Fixed: cannot change twice the type of a list in CSS mode
• Fixed: refreshing a local site’s view in the Site Manager has not effect and freezes the throttle
• Fixed: “New tab” and “Revert” contextual menu items added to tabs
• Fixed: Form insertion dialog’s width has problems when using the More/Fewer button
• Fixed: iframe elements’ end tag removed in XHTML but IE chokes on it (*sigh*)
• Fixed: cannot make an image float using CSS through the image dialog in Strict mode (wow, in fact it was not a bug, I forgot to implement it back in 2002! Thanks Erich Reto Iseli for the heads up.)
• Fixed: publishing an XHTML document was publishing something different from a locally saved version
• Fixed: typo in Help, “secion” instead of “section”
• Fixed: Help window is always on top on Mac OS X, forcing to close Help window to edit again
• Fixed: Site Manager now lists all directories before normal files and sorts both case insensitive, whatever the platform (Windows does this by default but not unix)
• Fixed: Site Manager chokes on remote empty directories
• Fixed: Site Manager chokes on local rempty directories
• Fixed: creating a new directory was inserting an new entry at the wrong place
• Fixed: changing the color of links has no effect in Nvu
• Enhancement: added a “Reload images” contextual menu entry to tabs (personal request from Linspire’s President and CEO). It does what you think it does. It refreshes all images (almost all, see below), including those in CSS inline styles and CSS stylesheets. Only one image resists again and again: the background specified by the background attribute on body cannot be refreshed. I tried various strategies, none worked. It’ll remain a “known issue” for v1.0.
• Fixed: inserting a form into an XHTML document freezes Nvu
• Fixed: middle click on a tab closes the tab
• Fixed: control-F4 closes the current tab
• Fixed: Insert > Smart widgets > Made With Nvu Button now uses the new smaller Document made with Nvu
• Fixed: double-clicking on an image file from a local-HD site in the Site Manager was not inserting the image into the document
• Fixed: “Contributed User Guide” => “User Guide”
• Fixed: if at least 2 tabs are currently edited, closing the current tab through context menu “Close Tab” and IMMEDIATELY applying H1 to the remaining tab crashes Nvu
• Fixed: editing a textarea deletes it
• Fixed: editing a label deletes it
• Fixed: editing a select element in XHTML does not list the options and optgroups
• Enhancement: “copy” added to contextual menu in Help window and Copy button added to its toolbar
• Enhancement: Help dialog buttons now target the relevant help section
• Inline Spell Checker now disabled by default

Known problems

• “Reload images” contextual tab menu entry does not affect the background specified by BACKGROUND attribute on the body element