[WEB4LIB] RE: xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

Wed Jan 12 12:17:46 EST 2005

I have dreamweaver and am making sure I do that for the library pages but
the other campus contributors do not have it and they must rely on the
editor provided in the CMS.  Too bad!

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Pons, Lisa (ponslm)
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:09 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

Excellent to be concerned: compliant code will only help you in the long
run.

Dreamweaver MX '04 will produce compliant code, but you have to set it up to
do so.

Lisa

Lisa Pons-Haitz

Webmaster
University Libraries
University of Cincinnati
lisa.pons at uc.edu
(513)556-1431

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Hassett [mailto:lhassett at dwebb.llu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:50 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor
> 
> 
> 
> First, let me say I appreciate this list and all the 
> expertise represented
> here.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a "bug free" WYSIWYG editor 
> that creates
> xhtml compliant code which could be integrated into a 
> "homegrown" CMS. The
> CMS was created by our campus IT department and uses php. We 
> are going thru
> a website redesign that is using stylesheets and xhtml 1.0 
> transitional (so
> we say!)  
> 
> I'm concerned that WYSIWYG editor currently in the CMS (purchased
> separately) allows non-compliant code, for example creating 
> font tags, even
> placing those font tags inside a header tag.  It's not clear 
> to me whether
> the CMS itself will be able to clean this up. If it doesn't, 
> our documents
> will not be what we say they are in the declaration statement 
> which is:  
> 
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> 
> 
> 
> I am a reference librarian on the outside of this development process,
> although I am one of the primary content editors and am one 
> of the first
> users of the CMS.  I try to keep current on HTML/XHTML/XML 
> issues, however,
> I still consider myself mostly a novice.  Normally, I only 
> lurk on this list
> to listen to what the real experts discuss but I'd really 
> like to suggest to
> our IT department an XHTML WYSIWYG editor to make sure our pages have
> compliant code.  Department secretaries and other staff who 
> have no HTML
> knowledge will be using this to enter their pages in the CMS.
> 
> If anyone can help with this I'd appreciate it.  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Leslie Hassett, Reference Librarian
> lhassett at dwebb.llu.edu
> (909)558-4300 ext. 47513
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 