Re: XOpus

--On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:02, Thorsten Scherler wrote:

> Let's focus on the html-editor!

HTML-editor is ok for users with basic knowledge of HTML and also
for editing simple data (author etc.). But think of users with
absolutely no HTML skills. For instance, i'm working on a pub for
a scientific community which's members are located all over
Germany. Users (at least some of them) should be able to edit and
publish all kinds of texts, such as announcements for workshops
and seminars, book reviews and lists, curriculums and - later on
- articles. This requires - in my view - an editor with which
they can do e.g. hyperlinks, some formatting or even footnotes
and pictures *without* knowing all the corresponding tags. Sure,
I could teach each of them some HTML (or the appropriate
XML-Markup), but that would go far beyond my capacities and is
also not very userfriendly. Scientists should of course
concentrate on the content, not on HTML, XML or whatever, and
after all: this is the purpose of a CMS, isn't it?

So, i think form editor is fine, but not enough. The integration
of an WYSIWYG-editor is absolutely necessary to make Wyona usable
by people/organisations without any 'web-professional'
background.  What about the Bitflux-Editor? I was trying to use
it some weeks ago, it didn't work for me with Wyona. Don't know
what the problem was (i focused on Xopus then), but on bitflux's
website it looks quite promising.

best regards
-- 
Dr. Hendrik Bunke
University of Bremen, Dept. 12
http://www.ibl.uni-bremen.de/~bunke