Tee wrote: > Personally I don't think there is a fully accessible > WYSIWYG Editor existed that delivers pure clean code. It all depends on how you define "fully". XStandard has a keyboard accessible interface and most definitely delivers clean, accessible markup.
Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com -------- Original Message -------- From: Tee G. Peng Date: 2007-09-12 7:46 PM > > On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: > >> This article may be useful: >> >> http://juicystudio.com/article/choosing-an-accessible-cms.php >> > Hmm, I wonder why they didn't include Modx. The survey was done in May, > maybe Modx (v 0.9.5) wasn't quite ready yet! The v.9.6 has improved a > lot and we are promised something even sweeter in the next release. > > That said, if you pay attention and practice web standards, it will be a > fooled to not pay attention to certain things from certain people in > the web standards groups. The same goes with Modx CMS, if you are > looking for a scalable, accessible and web standards compliant CMS that > offers many flexible and powerful features through plugins and snippets, > it will be a fool that you don't even spend a few minutes to take a look > simply because you already have a favorite ones. > > Dive into Modx and make a template (or convert one of your static > CSS/XHTML layout) isn't difficult at all. Modx is very user-friendly for > web designer however the learning curve is a bit higher (but not more > than WP, Joomla, Textpattern, EE, Plone of the sort in my opinion (I > have tested them all)) if one PHP knowledge's is a bit weak (someone > like me). Currently Modx lacks a good documentation and the admin > interface have room to improved (again! we are promised that they will > be changed in the next release); Many tips and tutorials are hidden in > the Forum that need a bit of digging and dedication. > > Modx doesn't control/limit what you want as far as code and > functionality concerned; it gives you what you want to have, the way you > wanted it. > > Personally I don't think there is a fully accessible WYSIWYG Editor > existed that delivers pure clean code. TINY MCE is the default plugin > for Modx which I find difficult to use and a memory eater; I prefer > something like textile from Textpattern; someone was making Markdown > integration I think. It has a QuickEdit front-end content editor which I > like very much. > > Ditto, Jot and Reflect snippets make Modx a wonderful Blog CMS (if you > only want a blog). Ditto aggregates articles (aka documents) (this > snippet can do a lot more tasks); Jot takes care of comments and > Reflect handles the archives. There is a plugin called PHx (Placeholders > Xtended), enable, can add the capability of output modifiers using > placeholders, template variables (A very powerful feature of Modx - you > no longer limited to Content area) and settings tags. Jot + PHx, you > get: moderate, edit, delete comments at front-end. As for the ping and > trackback features that bloggers concern about, there is a Trackback > snippet, and a Japanese developer wrote a SendPing module : > > [quote]: > What does this plugin do? > This plugin is supposed to send pings to various (editable) websites > using the XML-RCP library and ping protocol. The goal of this is to > update these services that there has been added new content to your > website, which will make sure these services crawl your website. This > feature is mainly interesting for those who use MODx to blog, but the > usage of pings is growing all the time as it's an comfortable way to > instantly get updated data for search engines. > In addition to this it'll also notify Google that your site has new > content and your sitemap.xml should be spidered again (exact filename > also configurable). > Also, according to ZeRo's email this currently supports multi domains, > which could be useful for the heavy users. > > What doesn't it do? > It wont make you coffee nor breakfast, sadly, in addition to that it > doesn't automatically notify these services as of now; you'll have to > run the module manually, ZeRo has planned a plugin to handle this with > his next version. > > Trackback allows blogger to send/receive pings to other blogs whereas > SendPing will notify blog search engines/social networking sites > > [/quote] > > > Many interesting and powerful snippets/plugins/modules that can enhance > features, functions and make your live sweeter, can be found in 'forum > > In Development'. > > Lastly, I almost hate to mention my site as it hasn't completed yet - > it's powered by Modx using just a few snippets/plugin with a > nothing-to-show-blog. This is not a good example to demonstrate how > flexible and scalable and accessible Modx can give you, but I hope it's > a good example of 'artisan's work' (borrowed Partrick's word) made by > Modx. In the blog individual article page, I even managed to score WCAG > AAA. > http://tinyurl.com/3deh87 > > tee > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
