Editing Mozilla Composer

{{Short description|HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite}}
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Mozilla Composer
| logo                   =
| screenshot             = Moscompos.PNG
| caption                = Mozilla Composer running on [[Linux]]
| developer              = [[Mozilla]]
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| latest preview date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q2703374|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| discontinued           = yes
| operating_system       = [[Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]]
| genre                  = [[HTML editor]]
| license                = [[Mozilla Public License|MPL]], [[GNU General Public License|GPL]], [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
}}

'''Mozilla Composer''' is the former [[free and open-source]] [[HTML editor]] and web authoring module of the [[Mozilla Application Suite]] (the predecessor to [[SeaMonkey]]). It was used to create and to edit [[web page]]s, [[e-mail]], and text documents, and available for [[Windows]], [[macOS]] and [[Linux]]. Composer was a [[graphical user interface|graphical]] [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]] to view, write and edit [[HTML]] source code.<ref name="~1">[http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ The SeaMonkey® Project]. Seamonkey-project.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.</ref>

In September 2008 [[Daniel Glazman]] announced a new [[WYSIWYG]] HTML editor, [[BlueGriffon]], written from [[Scratch (programming language)|scratch]] and based on Mozilla [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko]] and [[XULRunner]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2008/09/29/BlueGriffon |title=BlueGriffon Announcement |access-date=2021-07-08 |archive-date=2008-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220055219/http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2008/09/29/BlueGriffon |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[SeaMonkey]], the community-driven successor to Mozilla Suite, includes an HTML editor named Composer that is developed from the Mozilla Composer code contained in the original Mozilla Suite.<ref name="~1" />

==Nvu==
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Nvu
| logo                   = 
| screenshot             = Nvu screenshot2.png
| caption                = Nvu 1.0 editing Wikipedia main page
| collapsible            = 
| author                 = 
| developer              = [[Linspire]], [[Daniel Glazman]]
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| genre                  = [[HTML editor]]
| license                = [[Mozilla Public License|MPL]], [[GNU General Public License|GPL]], [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
| website                = {{URL|www.nvu.com}}
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'''Nvu''' (pronounced ''"N-view"'') is a [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]],<ref>[http://www.nvu.com/ Nvu home page]</ref> based on Mozilla Composer. It is intended to be an [[open-source software|open-source]] alternative to [[proprietary software]] like [[Microsoft Expression Web]] and [[Adobe Dreamweaver]]. As a WYSIWYG editor, it is designed to be easy for novice users, and does not require any knowledge of [[HTML]] or [[CSS]] to use. It runs on [[Mac OS X]], [[Windows]] and [[Linux]] and incorporates [[Cascading Style Sheet]]s support and other improvements from software company [[Disruptive innovation|Disruptive Innovations]]. Nvu was the brainchild of Kevin Carmony, CEO for [[Linspire]], who wanted an easy-to-use, WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux users.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=日経クロステック（xTECH） |date=2005-06-30 |title=MozillaベースのオープンソースHTMLエディタ「Nvu 1.0」正式リリース |url=https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/free/ITPro/NEWS/20050630/163728/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=日経クロステック（xTECH） |language=ja}}</ref>  Under Carmony's direction, Linspire started and sponsored Nvu, hiring [[Daniel Glazman]], former [[Netscape Communications Corporation]] employee, to be the lead developer.<ref name=":0" />

===Development===
The original plan in June 2005 was to merge back the numerous changes into Mozilla Composer's source code tree.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} Since then the [[Mozilla Application Suite|Mozilla Suite]] has been discontinued (then reintroduced as [[SeaMonkey]]), and no one has merged the Nvu code back into Composer.

===Standards compliance===
[[File:NVU cssEditor screenshot.png|thumb|300px|Nvu CSS editor]]
Nvu complies with the [[W3C]]'s web standards. By default, pages are created in accordance to HTML 4.01 Transitional and use CSS for styling, but the user can change the settings and choose between:
* Strict and transitional [[Document Type Definition|DTD]]'s
* [[HTML]] 4.01 and [[XHTML]] 1.0
* CSS styling or the old <code>&lt;font&gt;</code> based styling.

The application includes a built-in [[HTML validator]], which uploads pages to the [[W3C's HTML Validator]] and checks for compliance.

===Release history===
* 0.1 was released on February 4, 2004
* 0.20 was released on March 25, 2004
* 0.3 was released on June 11, 2004
* 0.4 was released on August 10, 2004
* 0.5 was released on October 6, 2004
* 0.6 (1.0b) was pre-released on November 26, 2004
* 0.7 (1.0b2) was pre-released on January 6, 2005
* 0.8 (1.0b3) was pre-released on February 2, 2005
* 0.81 was pre-released on February 9, 2005
* 0.90RC1 was released on March 4, 2005
* 0.90 was released on March 11, 2005
* 1.0PR was released on April 5, 2005
* 1.0 was released on June 28, 2005

===Shift to KompoZer===
[[Daniel Glazman]], the lead developer of [[Nvu]], announced on September 15, 2006, that he had stopped official development on Nvu and that he was developing a successor as a [[Mozilla Foundation|Mozilla.org]] project. It is written from scratch and based on Mozilla trunk [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko 1.9]] and [[XULRunner]]. [[PHP]] and [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] would be supported. A community-driven fork, [[KompoZer]], maintains Nvu codebase and fixes bugs until a successor to Nvu is released.  Glazman's project is called [[BlueGriffon]].

==KompoZer==
{{Infobox software
| name = Kompozer 
| logo = KompoZerLogo.svg
| logo size = 100px
| screenshot = Kompozer.png
| screenshot size = 250px
| caption = KompoZer 0.7.10 editing Wikipedia main page
| collapsible = 
| author = Fabien Cazenave
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| discontinued = yes
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| platform = [[Cross-platform]]
| size = 
| language = 
| genre = [[HTML editor]]
| license = [[Mozilla Public License|MPL]]/[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]/[[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]] tri-license
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102182312/http://www.kompozer.net/ kompozer.net]
}}
'''KompoZer''' is a discontinued [[Open-source software|open source]] [[WYSIWYG]] HTML editor based on the Nvu.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Relph-Knight|first=Terry|title=FOSS v proprietary software: Website creation|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/foss-v-proprietary-software/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=ZDNet|language=en}}</ref> KompoZer was [[Fork (software development)|forked]] as a community-driven project with development coordinated through [[SourceForge]].

KompoZer's WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view.

The most recent version is KompoZer 0.8 beta 3, released February 2010, using [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko]] 1.8.1. The stable version was 0.7.10, released in August 2007. The only regular developer said in June 2011 that development "is stalled at the moment".<ref name="stalled">[http://kazhack.org/?post/2011/06/13/One-Year-At-INRIA One Year At INRIA - Kaz'hack]. Kazhack.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.</ref>

As a [[32-bit]] application, it is no longer supported on [[macOS Catalina]] and later versions.

===Standards compliance===
KompoZer complies with the [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]]'s web standards. By default, pages are created in accordance to [[HTML]] 4.01 Strict and use [[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS) for styling, but the user can change the settings and choose between:
* Strict and transitional [[Document Type Definition|DTD]]'s
* HTML 4.01 and [[XHTML]] 1.0
* CSS styling or the old <code>&lt;font&gt;</code> based styling.

The application can call on the W3C [[Validator|HTML validator]], which uploads pages to the [[W3C Markup Validation Service]] and checks for compliance.

== See also ==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
* [[Comparison of HTML editors]]
* [[ActiveState Komodo]]
* [[BlueGriffon]] (replaces Nvu)
* [[SeaMonkey]] (includes the Gecko-based HTML editor that KompoZer derived from)
* [[List of HTML editors]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ Seamonkey Project]
*[http://bluegriffon.org/ Daniel Glazman's BlueGriffon replacement for Mozilla Editor/Composer and NVU/KompoZer]
*[http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2006/09/15/2074-kompozer Daniel Glazman about KompoZer and the new composer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125183606/http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2006/09/15/2074-kompozer |date=2019-01-25 }}
* [http://www.nvu.com nvu]
** [http://nvuext.mozdev.org/ Extensions and themes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712023130/http://nvuext.mozdev.org/ |date=2020-07-12 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102182312/http://www.kompozer.net/ Archive of official KompoZer website]
** [http://www.sf.net/projects/kompozer Project website on SourceForge]
** [https://kompozer-web.de/en/ Alternative project website with downloads and information]
** [http://wysifauthoring.informe.com/forum/ Development and User Forums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122074825/http://wysifauthoring.informe.com/forum/ |date=2010-01-22 }}
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090102045546/http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/kz-ug-home.htm KompoZer and Nvu User Guide Contributed by Charles Cooke]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100220131549/http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/44939-gin-up-a-quick-web-page-with-kompozer Gin Up A Quick Web Page With Kompozer]

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