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Because Dreamweaver has been so good at supporting HTML4 😐
Why are we still stuck using Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web.
Why hasn’t Nvu/Kompozer gotten better?
Where is Google’s web app to write web pages?
Nvu is a one man project. He’s still plugging away, but it really still looks and feels like Netscape composer to me. The only noticeable changes are some of the ui. Like how the first versions of mozilla screamed netscape.
I had no idea about komposer until I looked it up right now. Its a one man fork of nvu, apparently.
So basically its a lack of man power. Currently they aren’t easy enough for novices to use, and too limited for those who know html.
I stop caring about them (Nvu and Komposer)ages ago.
I mostly use what Notepad++, Eclipse and Netbeans. Depending in which language/environment I am on.
Ditto. Every now and then out of blind hope, I check out nvu when I get a friend asking me for a free dreamweaver replacement.
Both are effectively discontinued. For quite some while now.
Here are the current options:
GNOME desktop:
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
KDE desktop:
http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/
Alternatively one can always use instead a language-aware programmer’s text editor:
http://kate-editor.org/
Edited 2010-05-20 13:22 UTC