[Zope] Macromedia Contribute

[Paul Browning]

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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