Clarence wrote:
Hello all!
This may sound like a dumb idea for a product, but I believe that it has some uses for bringing more people to using Zope. This type of product would open up Zope to users who do not understand HTML but understand the point and click of a wysiwyg Word Processor/HTML editor. There is some software availible for this type of work, but it only runs on MS IIS/MS SQL Server (I do not know if there are any other aps which do this).
Currently, it takes a Zope-master to create a Zope website. HTML gurus and SQL gurus can add to a Zope website, but what happens to organizations who don't have any of the above staff. They can't use Zope because it requires more skill than they will ever learn. (Yes non-computer users can create stuff with a wysiwyg editor and ftp the html into the ZODB, but someone has to create a website out of the objects.)
The concept for this product involves giving non-computer people the ability to produce web pages kind of like a wysiwyg editor but with a web browser. Non-computer people need a web interface which will allow them to generate a basic web page similar to the way Zope allows a Zope-master to produce a complete website.
[snip] This is one of the things I'm developing XMLWidgets for. Included with the latest release of XMLWidgets is a demo of a web based wysiwyg style editor. It's very simple, though, and still quite buggy. Currently my development on XMLWidgets and the editor has been put in the freezer as I focus on other stuff, but feel free to download it and take a look. Any input on it is very welcome! More information and donwload is here: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets Regards, Martijn