SeaMonkey, the Internet suite package formerly known as Mozilla Suite, was just released under version 1.1.  SeaMonkey is like the old friend that you don't call anymore because  you're too "busy" spending time with your new friends, Firefox and Thunderbird.  Yet you still wish that old friend the best of luck and perhaps it's time for a reunion of sorts.

You can check out the online README file for the new features and fixes in SeaMonkey 1.1.  However, the best summary likely comes from SeaMonkey's Project News page.

Powered by the same engine as Firefox 2 and the upcoming Thunderbird 2, SeaMonkey 1.1 includes numerous enhancements including more visible security indicators in the browser and enhanced phishing detection for e-mail, a new tagging system for e-mail that supersedes labels, support for multi-line tooltips in web pages, and previews images in tab tooltips. Other changes include inline spell checking in the browser, an updated version of ChatZilla, and a significantly improved startup script on Linux.

By golly, they've convinced me...I'm going to download SeaMonkey today and give it a try!  I'm so sorry old friend that I didn't call sooner.  Remember that time you and me were in the park and...

I have been sitting on this story for some time. Daniel Glazman has been writing a number of posts recently on a brand new project he's just starting. Daniel Glazman was involved in the development of the Netscape and Mozilla Composer (now called SeaMonkey) as well as the author of the Nvu Web authoring system. All these composers contain a WYSIWYG HTML editor and in many ways can be the considered the open source versions of Microsoft's Frontpage and Adobe's Dreamweaver.

I personally like to use Nvu now and then. I often recommend Nvu to those that need an easy way to compose Web pages and wish to avoid "writing in code" as much as possible. I don't use Nvu or any WYSISYG editor too much these days because I have found that about everything I need to produce online content is self contained with today's content management systems. However, there are times when you don't want to do your work online, making the HTML editors a valuable tool when you need them.

Getting back to the point of this post, Daniel Glazeman has made several posts on his blog letting readers know that he is no longer working with either Nvu or the SeaMonkey projects. Instead, he wishes to work on a brand new composer. In a post he writes: