Mozilla, Seamonkey, Netscape, NVu -- how r they related?

[Michael Laplante]

Whenever the call comes in for a wysiwyg HTML editor, regulars here
routinely plug NVu. Personally, I find the thing far too buggy and the code
is as bad as the stuff FX used to generate.

In my efforts to find a passable wysiwyg HTML editor, I decided to take
another look at Composer. However, I quickly got lost in a quagmire of
different projects, all of them claiming some kinship to Composer. What
exactly is the relationship / lineage between the above projects?

M

 

[John Jay Smith]

NVU was developed by the tream who made Linspire (www.linspire.com)...
They have some projects on their own to fill in the gaps.

 

[Vegard Krog Petersen]

Whenever the call comes in for a wysiwyg HTML editor, regulars here
routinely plug NVu. Personally, I find the thing far too buggy and the code
is as bad as the stuff FX used to generate.

In my efforts to find a passable wysiwyg HTML editor, I decided to take
another look at Composer. However, I quickly got lost in a quagmire of
different projects, all of them claiming some kinship to Composer. What
exactly is the relationship / lineage between the above projects?

M

NVU is developed from Composer. Some day the features in NVU will be
incorporated back into Composer.

Mozilla is the top branch (?) where all the work is done. Firefox and
Thunderbird are stand-alone applications who is "cut" from the common
code-branch (or something like that)...

Netscape is a Firefox-version made bad by the add-ons and such crap...

The Integrated Suite (browser/mail/composer) aka Mozilla Suite will not
be devoloped further. Seamonkey is an unofficial continuation.


I reckon someone will explain it better or correct me...

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"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in

NVU was developed by the tream who made Linspire

No, it was made by Disruptive Innovations, chiefly Daniel Glazman. He
worked on Moz Composer (among other things) for Netscape until Netscape
folded, then founded DI.

Linspire sponsored DI's development of Nvu, but DI is not the "team who
made Linspire".

 

[John Jay Smith]

NVU was a project pushed by Linspire.... I dont know the details...

 

[Rookie]

The Integrated Suite (browser/mail/composer) aka Mozilla Suite will
not be devoloped further. Seamonkey is an unofficial continuation.

So can you just uninstall mozilla and install seamonkey and all settings
etc will be ok?

 

[Craig]

So can you just uninstall mozilla and install seamonkey and all settings
etc will be ok?

Yes. But...

They recommend installing Seamonkey, pointing it to the settings and
then using it for a bit. If it checks out, as it should, go ahead and
uninstall Mozilla.

Bottom line is that uninstalling Mozilla does not uninstall the data &
settings generated by Mozilla.

hth,
-Craig