Hi! Kontentor from iuveno is what you are looking for. Preview logins are available on request. It has a browser-independent frontend for anything but WYSIWYG text editing. For that it uses the richtext editor or, as a platform-independent alternative, the commercial Java-based editor from RealObjects. It is not really for free, but it should be affordable in most cases. Kontentor is based on SmartSections, Formulator, and a couple of other Zope products. We are implementing it for two universities right now. The code itself is open source, but we can not give too much support for free, as the two customers who pay for it have priority. The simple deal is: Either pay for the support or significantly contribute to the project. Contributors will get (at least some) support for free.
richtext looks exactly like EGrail's editor except EGrail lists IE 5.0 or Netscape 4.75 and higher as compatible clients.
See http://www.realobjects.de/ for the RealObjects editor ...
SmartSections looks interesting but, we would need something more developed (the demo crashed several times when editing text to the "Header" section of a table...).
The version used in the online demo is very old. And tables are the part that has not been implemented correctly yet.
I must confess that I am too new to Zope to fully understand how to implement my own template based editing interface. I will take a look at MetaPublisher and Squishdot next.
MetaPublisher and Squishdot are great for specific tasks. But I think they will not do ALL you need. Neither does Kontentor. But the idea of Kontentor is to give you a framework with configurable forms and templates to start with. Everything else can be plugged in later. Cheers, iuveno AG Joachim Werner Wittelsbacherstr. 23b 90475 Nürnberg joachim.werner@iuveno.de www.iuveno.de Tel.: +49(0)911/9883-984 (Fax: -985)