Re: [PhillyOnRails] Radiant CMS

[Jared Blitzstein <mailing-list@blitzstein.net>]

Some of them have "Word Stripping" plugins that rip out all the  
nonsense and styling tags from Word. They do a pretty decent job from  
what I've seen, except for lists, they just use a * instead of tags.

On Jan 29, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Flinn Mueller wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Freedom Dumlao wrote:
> > I agree. More specifically, they generally do not have great cross  
> > browser capabilities, and the HTML they generate is usually pretty  
> > awful. I really don't like to use them because it allows the user  
> > to destroy the look/feel of your site by using strange colors/ 
> > fonts/alignments etc... I know the users can do the same thing  
> > with textile but they definitely seem to do it a lot less with  
> > textile.
>
> I had a user try to paste with styles (thanks IE) 125 pages from a  
> word document.  The fact that many of the htmlarea's like FCK  
> support pasting from Word makes it worse.  The Windows 16 color  
> palette with bold italic +32 size font headings makes for some  
> *nice* pages on your carefully hand-crafted CSS laid out pages.
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