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Hello, I am Daniel Glazman, Nvu's lead engineer, and I have a few quite important comments to make about your review of Nvu.

• you said you tested a v0.1. We never released 0.1. The first public release was 0.15, and we released 0.20 a couple of weeks ago... 0.20 has very significant improvements compared to 0.15. You'll find a complete description of features <A HREF="http://glazman.org/whyNvu/index.html" TITLE="glazman.org">here</a glazman.org>, and the changelog <A HREF="http://glazman.org/whyNvu/nvu.html" TITLE="glazman.org">here</a glazman.org>.



• in particular, templates management is in 0.20... Too bad you tested a 0.15.



• about graphics, you are right saying that FrontPage takes advantage of the whole Windows underlying API, a lot of graphics functions behind directly integrated to the OS. Given the cross-platform state of Nvu, we can't do that and it's very unlikely that Nvu will integrate an image editor. Nvu is not intended to become a new gigantic-does-everything-but-your-coffee piece of software.



• your article does not mention standards compliance. Nvu produces a much better markup than FrontPage and integrates a very good CSS editor. The quality of the markup lets authors be sure their pages will be maintainable, and that the number of cross-browser issues is minimal.



• Nvu 0.20 preserves PHP <?php<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... ?>pseudo-processing instructions.



• as you said, Nvu is a work in progress. We are working on exciting new features, and even if you plan to keep FrontPage two more years, I think you'll be able to trash it quite soon... Stay tuned:-)



• for those interested, Nvu will be present at the <A HREF="http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org/" TITLE="desktoplinuxsummit.org">Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego</a desktoplinuxsummit.org> at the end of the month

Daniel Glazman

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