Hi Sammy ***disclaimer*** I work for a Macromedia partner. I do lots of MM related stuff and like *some* of their gear a fair bit (esp. Coldfusion and Contribute).
...But I have my WSG hat on when on this list - not my MM hat. ***************** Yes I've done a fair bit of this over the past 6 months or so. We have an intranet/wiki thing we use as a documentation tool in the office and it is completely Contribute based and valid XHTML. The system depends on parsing the pages server side (when the user performs an edit) to pull out meta data and bits of content to feed into the search, syndication feed and so on. Basically a poor mans CMS with no database. So if the validity breaks the site breaks. This is actually the first use I have ever found for XHTML, apart from this site I am HTML4 all the way. I can say that it is possible to enter invalid mark up into C3, but you have to try pretty damn hard (i.e. put an unescaped ampersand in the URL dialogue). On the whole it gets things right and forces XHTML. The other thing I was trying to test out with this intranet app was the CSS support. This has been a major problem in Contribute for us in the past. For our intranet I pulled a design off CSS Zen Garden, tweaked it a little, replaced the images and went for it. CSS support in Contribute 3 is *much* improved (Dreamweaver engine... yadda, yadda). The editing mode still has relatively minor problems with some position/padding/margin/width stuff but its workable (previously is was horrible). I've started writing up on some of the stuff I've done with Contribute at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/contribute/articles/cps_cf.html. That article covers about the first 1/3 of what I have been messing with, there should be more to come early next year. I've also got a demo version of the sample app online, if anyone wants to take me at my word contact me off list :) Also I can tell you Jesse's comments are pretty much on the money in terms for rendering, C2 used to use Opera for its internal browser but they changed to IE on PC and god knows what on the Mac in C3. -- Mark Stanton Gruden Pty Ltd http://www.gruden.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
