Although I haven't tested Ektron's flash editor on Mac, I do think I know a little bit about the issue your talking about (mainly because we have run into the same problem with our java applet wysiwyg editor, ActivEdit).
The issue is that the Java API called LiveConnect (invented by netscape) is not implemented correctly on Mac OS X. The LiveConnect API lets an applet communicate with JavaScript. We are awaiting a fix for this, we have submitted a bug report to Apple. Just this week I tested Apple's java 1.4 jdk (currently in alpha) and it still has the same problems. _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag CTO, CFDEV.COM http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cms-list-admin@;cms-list.org]On Behalf Of Michal Geci Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cms-list] MacroMedia Contribute Importance: High 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. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
