CMS Hardtalk

Bård from Ez Publish (Ez Publish at the CMS Map) informed me that eZ Publish finally include a spellchecker in the online editor of the CMS (RC8 version of the Online Editor).

I have for several years been wondering why eZ besides the lack of the spellchecker was focusing on integration to Open Office and not to MS Office. Of course it is a noble mission to support open standards, but loosing projects because the lack of the functionality that most companies require is a shame.

To be fair to eZ Systems, they have had a strategy to use the spellchecker (plugin) in Firefox. Actually it works great with eZ Publish. The advantage with the Firefox spellchecker plugin is that it also checks normal text fields and not only the fields where the editor is used. The bad side is that a lot of organisations and companies doesn’t allow the employees to install Firefox.

Thumbs up for the RC8 version of the Online Editor of eZ.