Macromedia is just trying to fill the gap between static and dynamic content handling, I'm afraid aimed to those sites that Dreamweaver graciously contributed to deploy, but that now are just leaking everywhere. They shouldn't market Contribute as a new software product, but as a compensation to their customers to whom they made believe they could maintain a site with Dreamweaver, because DW was never a tool for publishing and maintaining. That illusion for many webmasters might already have come to an end by now, but with this tool I guess their sites can still have a little more breath. Ausum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Browning" <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:28 AM Subject: [Zope] Macromedia Contribute
This got a mention on the cms list <http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/>
I just gave the preview version a spin. It's a nice try. If you're not going to do TTW editing in the browser then this is the perhaps the next best thing for "occasional authors". There is drag-and-drop integration of Word and Excel.
No support (yet) for secure protocols (just FTP) but I ran it against Webdrive pointing at a server over ssh and it worked fine.
The real bummer is that it seems a non-starter with Zope. Contribute needs to create the directories _mm, _bak and _notes.
Is there really no way round this? With Dreamwever you can switch the _notes thing off but I don't think this is an option with Contribute. Could a PUT_factory intervene?
Paul
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