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I don't understand why companies and CMS projects think that everything needs to happen in the browser.

Especially in situations like publishing, when the content creation is being done 100% by people under employment or contract. Give them a native app or browser plugin for authoring, and you can solve all these problems with much greater sophistication.

In the distant past I used to use Microsoft Content Management Server to power websites. It lacked most of the modern features of a web CMS, but it provided a native app and IE plugin for authoring. In terms of code control and consistency it kicked the ass of even the best JS libraries available today.

A native authoring app, side loaded onto employee machines, would be a much more powerful authoring solution. It would produce clean HTML code and push it into the CMS via an API call.



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