Mozilla Composer

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Mozilla Composer is the free, open source, HTML editor and web authoring module of the Mozilla Application Suite (the predecessor to SeaMonkey). It is used to create and to edit web pages, e-mail, and text documents easily. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Composer is a graphical WYSIWYG HTML editor. One also can view, write and edit HTML source code with Composer.

Linspire has sponsored development on Nvu, a stand-alone version of Mozilla Composer which incorporates Cascading Style Sheets support and other improvements from software company Disruptive Innovations.

Daniel Glazman, the lead developer of Nvu, announced on September 15, 2006 that he has stopped official development on Nvu and he is developing a successor to it, tentatively called Composer, as a Mozilla.org project. It is written from scratch and based on Mozilla trunk Gecko 1.9 and XULRunner. PHP and CSS will be supported. A community-driven fork, KompoZer, maintains Nvu codebase and fixes bugs until a successor to Nvu is released. 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.

[edit] See also

• List of HTML editors
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Netscape Composer
• Nvu
• SeaMonkey

[edit] External links

• Seamonkey Project
• Mozilla Editor
• How to Design and Publish Your Website with Mozilla Composer
• Daniel Glazman's personal home page
• Daniel Glazman about KompoZer and the new composer

v • d • e Mozilla projects
Browser related projects	Camino · Firefox · Minimo · SeaMonkey
Other projects	Bugzilla · ChatZilla · Lightning · Penelope · Prism · Sunbird · Thunderbird
Obsolete projects	Mozilla Suite · Calendar Project
Infrastructure	Gecko · Necko · XBL · XPCOM · XPConnect · XPInstall · XUL · XULRunner
Components	Composer · NSPR · NSS · Rhino · SpiderMonkey · Tamarin · Venkman