Wysiwyg News & Articles

Though we haven’t covered them in quite a while, Asbru has been nothing short of ridiculously active in their endeavors. The company released a grand total of nineteen updated versions of their content management system in 2008 alone. This year they’re already at number two.

The most recent version, Asbru Web Content Management  v7.0, keeps with the company’s aim to be simple and easy enough for anyone with web browsing and word processing skills to use.

Big time Japan-based software vendor JustSystems is working hard to get everyone on the same page. Their latest release, XMetaL Author Essential, lets content creators generate content that can easily be repurposed into different languages and formats for multi-channel publishing.

Recently, Ephox, a provider of authoring software for web content, announced the latest release of its online rich text, WYSIWYG editor, EditLive!

Everyone loves to make their software easy for the non-technical user. Probably, because the non-technical user is usually the one making the decisions. If we make them think that they could “quickly” and “easily” do anything, they feel more empowered.

New Hampshire based Ektron, has recently updated their popular eWebEditPro+XML web-based editing component. Of note is an enhanced API, giving developers further abilities to manipulated data and behavior in server-side code.

eWebEditPro+XML integrates with Web content management systems and other Web-based applications to enable non-technical users to create “smart” forms and capture and validate data based on specific criteria, all from a browser window.