I have discovered that this Ektron's flash based wysiwyg editor doesn't work on Macs (tested on iMac G4 with Mac OS X - Mozilla and IE browsers) because his Java runtime environment doesn't support Live content (data live streams)! Can anybody confirm this?
Thanks Bye Michal Geci > Subject: Re: [cms-list] MacroMedia Contribute > > Robert Occhialini, > > You wrote on cms-list: > > > FWIW, it is technically possible to integrate this product > as a front > > end WYSIWYG editor for an actual content management system > through the > > use of Contribute's extension framework(taken from Dreamweaver). > > You may have noted that last week Ektron, the leading supplier of > WYSIWYG Visual Editing tools (to Vignette, Documentum, > divine, etc. and > hundreds of other CMS companies) added a Macromedia Flash > based editor > called eWebWP that is cross-platform, so that WYSIWYG is no longer > limited to the Windows platform. > > Do you know whether the Contribute front end is Flash-based? > > I would like you to know that skyBuilders.com is releasing an > open-source WYSIWYG cross-platform visual editor called > skyWriter based > on the new Mozilla 1.1+ browser. It will work in future Netscape and > other Gecko-based releases as well. > > We also built a skyWriter for Internet Explorer (based on the > MS Dynamic > HTML Editing Component - an Active-X control that most > developers find > superior to the latest MSHTML control for IE 6). > > Both WYSIWYG tools can be incorporated in CMS's with no > royalty or usage > fees. > > Details, demos, and downloads are at http://wysiwyg.skybuilders.com. > > -- > Bob Doyle > http://www.skyBuilders.com > 77 Huron Avenue > Cambridge, MA 02138 > 617-876-5678 > -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
