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This is Part 1 of a review of the Blogg-X editor and its integration with the Joomla! Content Management Environment
Blogg-X is a multi platform stand alone
(on the client PC) WYSIWYG web content editor.
I am using Blogg-X to compose
and publish this review on my Dell laptop PC... There is no need to be connected on-line while editing
an article with Blogg-X... This is one of the main reasons I am interested in seeing how well Blogg-X works.
Using Blogg-X solves some of the inherent problems encountered when
using a browser based web editor, however these issues are also a
cultural holdover from the days prior to the web where everyone
used their PCs and were not so well connected over the Internet.
The problem is not the web or the Internet, but rather that the PCs
we use to access the web and Internet were designed for an earlier
era when we did not have the web. Although we have modern operating
systems like Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS-X, all of these are
still pretty much following that old paradigm, and the web features
are added on top of that architecture as a retrofit to something
that is inherently designed as a stand alone system...
I believe when Web 2.0 matures, and Operating Systems, finally
become fully committed as nodes on a massively large network, folks
will become much more accustomed to doing everything on the web
using feature rich and reliable tools that make web publishing a
snap with out all the headaches and user unfriendliness that we
experience today. When that day comes, (soon i hope) the need for
custom HTML programming will be a memory of the past, just like
hand coded word processors became obsolete with the advent of
Graphical User Interfaces like Mac OS and MS Windows.
In the future, when you flip the switch on your PC, the entire
Operating System, and all your Applications will load up from a
server somewhere and will just work exactly as you need it to work.
If there is a crash, none of your data will be lost and all you
will have to do is click a reset button that reloads your entire
system in the exact context that it was in before the crash. Your
cursor will be in the same spot you left it and you will be back to
work in seconds or even fractions of seconds (when we all have
gigabit fiber optic network connections)... How long does it take
for Windows Vista to load now? :)
Well I have not said much about Blogg-X have I? But thats a good thing... its pretty transparent and I like that... It does the job well. I will continue this review and talk more about Blogg-X features in a follow up article... (Part 2) Coming soon!
To use Blogg-X as your Joomla! content editor for this site,
download it from:
this page. Read more about Blogg-X here: http://www.iobinary.com/ Learn
how to use it
here
-dbs
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