Nvu: WYSIWYG HTML Editor (Runs in Vista)
We used to hand code HTML for web pages in the old days. Tools like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, and even good old Windows' Notepad were commonly used by web developers in those dark days. These days most of us use some kind of Content Mangement System (CMS) or outsource it to a blogging or web management site (often for free). But, every now and then a WYSIWIG HTML editor comes in handy. For me, that now and then event is usually creating some kind of product information table for a product review (such as the ones I sometimes write for the O'Reilly Network. The...
...is a free Open Source multiplatform HTML editor that runs under Linux, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows. I just installed it under Microsoft Windows Vista and it works fine there too. I find it useful to build those once-in-a-while HTML tables I need.
Regarding the nvu html
Regarding the nvu html editor. You wrote:
Nvu Web Authoring System
...is a free Open Source multiplatform HTML editor that runs under Linux, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows. I just installed it under Microsoft Windows Vista and it works fine there too.
Ive been using NVU for more than a year with Windows XP, but on a new laptop that has Vista Home Premium (nothing else was available!) it seems to be impossible to install NVU 1.0 from the .zip file. Vista elegantly unzips the archive, but won't let me put the files in C:\Program Files\NVU. Vista seems reluctant to allow any copying to or reading from files in the root directory or C:\Program files\subdirs.
How did you contrive to install NVU on a computer with Vista? (I've tried the NVU website, but it's unhelpful.)
Thanks in advance for your anticipated good advice.
John Kiernan
London, Canada
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Problem is Microsoft is
Problem is Microsoft is "protecting" you.
You need to change "owner" for that directory. Then change permissions to allow YOU do what you need.
Right click/properties
Security/advanced
Owner/
Change owner and you can do what you want.
If you like Nvu, you should
If you like Nvu, you should check out KompoZer. Its a bugfixed version of Nvu that also includes more standards-compliant code generation.