Mmmkay, For what its worth, there is NO java (or otherwise) html wysiwyg editor that can be delivered to a real-world mac user base. There are MAYBE a couple possibilities if you can add the caveat MAC 0S X as a base platform. (Pie in the sky requirement today)
We are delivering web based CMS solutions to a campus of 5000 users about 3500 of which are on MAC pre OSX machines. You might ask, How the &^%##& do we do this?!? Well, its not too hard. We are using ektron eMpower, but we could have adapted eWebeditpro, or ActiveEdit as well. How? Well, we run a browser/os check as the user goes to the /admin section to begin editing the page. If they have an os or browser version that wont work with these fine tools, we simply direct their request through a windows terminal server that launches an IE 5.5 instance on their screen. Yeah, I know, you're thinking, "Hey, there isn't a java based Windows Terminal Server Client". Well, with much digging, there are some nice German boys that have one and it works great, Java 1.1 compliant even! http://www.hobsoft.com The end effect is somewhat transparent to the user. The page takes about 5 seconds to load (start the java object and make the connection to the terminal service). Using the application hosting features the user only sees the IE window, once closed the session ends. As such they can now login and use those nifty PC only and IE only widgets we all love. Cost wasn't too bad. The Terminal Services come with Win2k Servers, you have to purchase some user licenses (concurrent users). About 25/user as I recall, and then you can either purchase named accounts from hobsoft or concurrent users. I want to say we paid 175/concurrent user with them. I would strongly recommend throwing up a dedicated box for the terminal server, but isn't required. It really just depends on your user load. Its almost 100% CPU load bound. A 1.4ghz single cpu would support 20 concurrent users, adding the second cpu to our server hopped us to 40 concurrent users. If your need is higher, both of the services support clustering and load failover. At this point, even with our user base, we haven't needed more concurrent users. If you find a tool out today that can more elegantly handle this WYSIWYG tool, I'ld like to see it, but I spent literally months evaluating solutions, vendor products, evaluations, etc, etc. And this was the only solution that could be delivered TODAY. We will likely move to ektron's java tool when it is released, but the rumor mill indicates it will only support osx. Our current solution is 8.6 stable. Trey Rouse Internet Project Coordinator Web Services - Rice University MS 119 - 713.348.4799 -----Original Message----- From: James Sleeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: WYSIWYG HTML editors (a'la soEditor) for Macs ? On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 00:19, Tim Painter wrote: > Don't know if this will work, but try http://editize.com/index.php -- they > have a java based editor that may fit the bill. Looks swish, but doesn't support images (or tables, but that's not so important), and Java support pre OSX sucks on Macs (no 1.3, can get Swing but it's a pain) so it probably wouldn't even work on them. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
