Graham Chiu wrote:
The author creates a straw man ( a shoe shop built upon a shoe object ) without mentioning that Zope users can use a relational database instead to build their store.
I think that's a Zope Documentation problem ;-)
And he is not aware of the way that many here use editors with FTP capabilities to interact with Zope. ( though FTP doesn't work in many situations ).
FTP support is not good enough to use for total site development. It's also not at a high enough level for content managers as I'm currently finding.
Far from being torture "Expecting someone to code in a browser text box is considered a human-rights violation in most civilized nations" the small text browser box encourages code to be factored.
Sorry, that's simply not true ;-) Text boxes are pathetic for editing. Find and replace? That said, DTML is probably more of a human rights violation right now... I think Zope Studio will address a lot of the aboev problems, but I can't help feeling a pluggin type thing for Dreamweaver would be of great benefit too :-)
From the content managers point of view I think it's all about consistency of interface and ease of use... the two reasons I still use WinNT on my desktop instead of LINUX ;-)
cheers, Chris