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A survey of Linux Web development tools (Linux.com)
Linux.com looks at several web development tools. "Of all the Web development programs in this list, Nvu is the only one that really does a lot 'behind the scenes.' With the other programs, you're not very far removed from the actual code, so whether it's standards-compliant is up to the user rather than the program. Nvu generates the code for you, so it's important to consider the code that it generates and whether it's up to snuff. Nvu has a validation tool that submits a page to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Markup Validation Service, and the code generated by Nvu doesn't always pass."
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A survey of Linux Web development tools (Linux.com) Posted Oct 12, 2005 16:28 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] And unlike all the other tools mentioned in the review, NVU does not support remote editing of files on SFTP/SCP sites: only through FTP.
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 12, 2005 18:13 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] I tested webDAV publishing, it works. It's just that the dialogue box example URL is an FTP one.Bruce
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 12, 2005 18:18 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] Oops, going over your comment again I guess you weren't concerned with webdav. Sorry. But these days webdav is the standard means of publishing from this sort of program. I haven't tested whether it will work over HTTPS or not.Bruce
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 12, 2005 19:23 UTC (Wed) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link] In our college environment with lots of producers of their own content SFTP/SCP is the accepted method and FTP is being phased out. WebDAV was considered and rejected for the purpose. Users with Dreamweaver etc. use SFTP. Our official stuff flows through Bricolage via SFTP/SCP. I would estimate SFTP/SCP support would be a welcome addition to NVU.
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 27, 2005 23:30 UTC (Thu) by ruin8tr (guest, #16593) [Link] From what I understand, SFTP uses SSH which would allow the user to execute commands on the target server. This makes security much more difficult than with a more controlled protocol like DAV.
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 12, 2005 21:21 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] I've got to disagree... It seems like everybody, including Microsoft, is moving away from WebDAV. At least, development has slowed to a trickle and, except for the occasional Subversion repo, I don't know anybody actively using the protocol.
Which is funny because I remember some of the promises from the WebDAV developers: we're going to replace your SCM (ClearCase, Perforce, CVS)! We're going to replace SMB! We're going to replace IMAP! We're going to replace FTP!
That's been my experience anyway.
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 13, 2005 8:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] And even Subversion is using a superset of the protocol, because (as I understand it) the protocol itself doesn't handle versioning (!)
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 13, 2005 15:32 UTC (Thu) by freddyh (subscriber, #21133) [Link] <quote>It seems like everybody, including Microsoft, is moving away from WebDAV. </quote>
That might be because they never really got their implementation in WinXP right. Ever tried copying big files (300+ MB) through Webdav? Works perfectly if you use Konquerer or Webdrive in WinXP but fails consequently when using IE.
<sarcasm>
Cheers,
No, nvu DOES support webDAV publishing Posted Oct 12, 2005 22:11 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] It seems that if you set up webdav, you should not access the files locally: only through webdav. This makes it quite useless for me.
A survey of Linux Web development tools (Linux.com) Posted Oct 12, 2005 18:50 UTC (Wed) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link] It might be possible with FUSE sshfs, shfs, or something similar.
A survey of Linux Web development tools (Linux.com) Posted Oct 12, 2005 19:16 UTC (Wed) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link] Sounds like time for a patch.
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