A Site Manager occupies left-hand sidebar, essential HTML editing tools reside in toolbars at the top, and opened files fill the bulk of the main editing window. The basic layout of the application has remained the same. The 0.7.x series focused on two tasks - merging in outstanding bug-fixes left over from the abandonment of Nvu, and completing an integrated CSS editor named CaScadeS. KompoZer developer Fabien Cazenave has laid out a release roadmap for the editor. The RPM packages are reported to work on Red Hat, Fedora, and Mandriva, and the DEB packages on Debian and Ubuntu. Linux users can choose between tar, RPM, and DEB packages for Intel hardware. You can download KompoZer binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The just-released version 0.7.10 marks the culmination of more than a year’s work, and introduces several new features. But rather than a mere maintenance project, it is an actively developed application with its own identity and goals. In 2006, Disruptive Innovations announced that work on Nvu had stopped with the release of 1.0, and the code would be turned over to the community for maintenance. Composer, the editing component, was left out in the cold until Linux distributor Linspire contracted with the developers at Disruptive Innovations to rework the old codebase into a modern Web design tool they named Nvu. When the Mozilla Foundation officially stopped developing the suite in 2003, the first three components lived on in Firefox, Thunderbird, and ChatZilla. The Mozilla suite featured an integrated browser, email/news client, IRC chat client, and HTML page editor. If you are old enough, you may remember the Mozilla Application Suite that preceded standalone Firefox and Thunderbird. Now the next new release is here - KompoZer, heir to the Mozilla Composer legacy and updated for today’s technology. Free software users have witnessed the rise and fall of several Web design apps, but it has been a while since a new one debuted. In proprietary software, Web page design is dominated by Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Microsoft’s FrontPage.
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