{"id":30,"date":"2004-10-19T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-10-19T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T00:08:11","slug":"nvu-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2004-10-19\/nvu-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"NVU Wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvu.com\/\">NVU<\/a> is great, and I want it to get even better. So I&#8217;m presenting my &#8220;NVU wishlist&#8221;, organized in no particular order other than what I could remember being annoyed by. I am thinking in terms of what I want as a user, not how hard it would be to implement, so some of these requests are unlikely to make a NVU 1.0 release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smart quotes. I like proper open- and close-quotes, they make a page look professional. And when the quotes are serialized, I want them to use numeric entities instead of &amp;ldquo; and &amp;rdquo; because that is much more portable than the HTML entities.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use &#8220;body text&#8221;. I don&#8217;t ever want to use body text, I always want real paragraphs. Currently (as of .50) using paragraphs is fairly painful, because mysterious body text blocks appear where I don&#8217;t want them.<\/li>\n<li>Have a structured outline mode. Instead of the left-hand ruler, which I don&#8217;t ever use, I would like a structured outline displaying my headings and paragraphs. It is not necessary that this allow the headings\/paragraphs to collapse, although that might be kinda cool.<\/li>\n<li>Auto-TOC and auto-index features. I would frequently like to be able to have an index page with links into sub-pages (and sometimes back again). Also, automatic or semi-automatic linking of index and glossary pages; using DHTML to display these glossary items in another popup window would be a cool addon. Note that this is something that might be handled really well by an NVU extension, whenever NVU moves to the toolkit extension-management architecture.<\/li>\n<li>Upload\/save relative-linked documents properly. My FTP server loads the website from ~\/httpdocs\/, and I make extensive use of site-relative links (link href=&#8221;\/index-new.css&#8221;). These links are not loaded properly in edit mode, because the relative-URI parsing tries to load them from FTP ~\/index-new.css which fails miserably. This is really a bug and not a feature request, and glazou and I have already discussed a technical solution, so it may be already happening in the NVU 0.6 series.<\/li>\n<li>Local\/Remote site manager. The left-hand toolbar is nice if you are editing pages directly, but I frequently need to keep a local copy of the website and update it in batches. A Dreamweaver-style local-and-remote site manager would be invaluable to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVU is great, and I want it to get even better. So I&#8217;m presenting my &#8220;NVU wishlist&#8221;, organized in no particular order other than what I could remember being annoyed by. I am thinking in terms of what I want as a user, not how hard it would be to implement, so some of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}