Even though we had aLong time lurker first time poster. The above statement is a profound one that technical people such as ourselves often overlook. Whether your application integrates Word or acts like Word doesn't matter - as long as the user is able to make the transition with little effort is the key. As many UI people here will agree, programmers often don't fit their programs to the "user model." In other words the we program the application to have well defined, compliant HTML. We program features that would require books to explain to a non technical person. After all of this programming we often become frustrated because users don't care about such features.
large investment in the XML Editor, we ultimately discontinuing it, in favor
of Microsoft Word integration, because the fact is that the business owners
who are the ones using the Content Management systems often aren't technical
enough to really find their way around in Word, no less a more complicated
editor with XML tags.
Any of the programmers out there preaching XML editors, compliant HTML, etc. should take a good look at Joel's UI Guide for Programmers article at:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html
I've summarized the above at:
http://www.joestump.net/pages/news.php/709
It makes a lot of sense - users want programs to work how they *expect* them to work. As programmers we need to program to users' expectations, not our own agendas. Users don't care about open formats, powerful options, etc.
At any rate we've strayed from the original posting asking for pointers on embedded WYSIWYG editors for CMS.
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