NVu, an HTML editor now in beta release, has the potential to be the next great WYSIWYG HTML editor.
have a dirty little secret. When I started to build my first Web site a few years back, I used Microsoft's FrontPage. The main reason I chose to use FrontPage was its WYSIWYG facility. It made creating tables, changing the look of the text, renaming HTML pages and many other tasks a snap. For the professionals among you, this may be heresy, but after cleaning up the generated code, I had a useful site. For a number of years, I have been looking for equivalent Linux products. The wait may be almost over.
Although nothing yet approaches FrontPage's ease-of-use, we now have a number of products that are truly WYSIWYG editors. They may grow into something much more.
NVU:
From the set of Linux HTML editors now available, the most advanced seems to be NVu (New View). NVu offers users the ability to:
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Import complete sites.
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Publish the current set of Web pages to the Web.
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Export pages as ASCII text.
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Spell check pages.
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View pages in normal, tagged HTML, full HTML and preview modes.
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Set a wide variety of encodings, including None, Unicode (UTF-8) and Western (ISO-8859-1).
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Create tables easily.
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Create forms easily.
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Insert special symbols visually, quickly.
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Insert a table of contents based on text styles.
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Insert custom PHP code or comments.
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Write in a left-to-right or right-to-left direction, for those using Hebrew or Arabic.
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