[Zope-CMF] CMF Usabiltiy

[Tres Seaver]

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 05:34, David (Hamish) Harvey wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Friday, July 12, 2002 18:51:45 +1200 John Morton <jwm@plain.co.nz> 
> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15, alan runyan wrote:
> >
> >> * a 'tree structure manager'?  this is fairly simplistic I believe.
> >
> > Don't we already have that via the ZMI?
> >
> >> * using the IE5 WYSIWYG editor is very subjective.  I personally dont
> >> like it.  and highly recommend using JAVA WYSIWYG editors - they have a
> >> hope ofworking w/ Mac's.
> >
> > Check out the ExternalEditor product, for editing textareas, or go webDAV
> > for  everything else.
> 
> To be fair that's great for developers, but no use for a CMS that you want 
> non-technical people to use.

Why?  ExternalEditor lets you use *your* favorite tools (GoLive,
FrontPage, gvim, Word, whatever) to edit content *as a local file*;
it handles the messy bits of putting it back into Zope for you, *as
you change it* (you do need to refresh the page in your browser manually
at this point).  CMF + ExternalEditor is da bomb!

Tres.
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