[Zope] Re: WYSIWYG Editor for Zope.

Maik Jablonski maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:35:07 +0100


Javier de la Torre wrote:
> Hi.
>  
> I'm new in this list and this is my first message to the community :)
>  
> Well, here come my question.
>  
> I've been searching around for a Wysiwyg editor that i could include to 
> edit the content of my DTML documents.
> I founded some web pages (here <http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/ttw.html> 
> is a list of possibilities) explaining how to integrate an IE Editor 
> inside Zope but after the instalation of it (the one from vsbabu.org 
> <http://vsbabu.org/> exactly because it also has the posibilities to 
> include images and links from the server) i founded a very anoying problem.
> When you edit a document with this Microsoft Editing control it removes 
> my <dtml-var standard_html_header> and starts writing after my <dtml-var 
> standard_html_footer>.
>  
> So it brokes the structure of my page.
>  
> My final idea is... i've got a web page managed by non technical users. 
> In every web page there's a link to an administration page where they 
> will have this visual control to edit the contents of this specific 
> page. This will make everything very easy.
>  
> I can't understand why this kind of tool is not more developed for Zope 
> when probably it will make the editing of documents no so awful for non 
> technical persons.

Because your non technical staff should not see or edit any DTML!!! 
"Content-Users" should only edit content (maybe in HTML or 
StructuredText), you (as web-application-developer) have to write and 
maintain the application, which renders the content...

Maybe you should have a look at something like UnifiedHTMLDocument / 
StructuredDocument.

And just another one: Zope isn't a Content-Management-System, Zope is an 
application-server!!! You can build your own CMS-applications with it... 
or use a ready-out-of-the-box-CMS like PLONE...


Cheers, Maik