Joe Martins wrote:
Providing a WYSIWYG editor on the front-end satisfies their creative needs, while transparently generating XML from their work satisfies the
needs of the business.
> IMO, we will not see wide spread generation of content in XML until we > have wide spread acceptance of a WYSIWYG editor that generates it. > Right now, I think that means that you're more or less limited to > taking controls of styles in Word and training people to use styles > religiously.Joe and Dwight.
> > Dwight
Have you seen the latest WYSIWG editing widget developments? Everyone has been waiting to see a cross-platform visual editor come out of the Mozilla Organization, because Java applets have been a bit dicey and somewhat expensive for those using open-source CMS, and most CMS companies want to offer tools for non-Windows (IE for Mac does not support the MS DHTML Edit Component - it's an Active-X control)..
Just a couple of weeks ago Ektron (the leading supplier of WYSIWYG widgets to the big and medium size CMS companies) introduced their eWebWP visual editor based on a Macromedia Flash download. See http://www.ektron.com/ewebWP.cfm
And this week at skyBuilders.com we announced our skyWriters for Internet Explorer and for Mozilla 1.1+ will be license free and open source. We think this is the first HTML visual editor for Mozilla. It can be tested and downloaded at http://wysiwyg.skybuilders.com.
Bitflux and q42 Xopus recently announced open-source XML visual editors, also based on Mozilla 1.1 and its XUL applications. See http://www.bitflux.com and http://www.xopus.org
Bob
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