On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:41:11AM -0800, Titus Brown wrote:
>I'm not really experienced enough to say -- but do you know if non-programmers
>find Zope similarly difficult to deal with?  I'd suspect not, if only because
>I've been impressed with how easy it is to public static pages with Zope...

Probably because DTML provides a gentle introductory path; most HTML
authors will be familiar with putting in  or  tags, and
most editing tools probably support them.

It's probably not Quixote's province to support this.  It would be
easy to add utility functions to display ZPT templates or whatever,
but editing them would require lots of fiddly work setting up DAV or
something like that, and that's too messy to burden Quixote with.

In his posting Juan David suggests developing an application with
through-the-web editing.  Indeed, that's a very good idea; I've long
thought that, if I were in charge of Zope, I'd restructure it to be a
CMS application on top of a Quixote-like publishing core, and
fanatically enforce a separation between the two components.  (But I
have no intention of working on such a thing, since I wouldn't use it
myself.)

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