CMS and Mac

Some time ago now, James Robertson blogged about the poor state of Mac support in CMS products. Quite rightly he identified the WYSIWYG editor as the most common problem area which of course got my attention. It’s over six years ago now that Ephox switched over to Java from ActiveX to get support for Mac and it’s probably the smartest thing we’ve ever done. Not because we have vast numbers of Mac users, but because it only takes one Mac user to sink a deal.

It’s taken me so long to post because just talking about your Mac support has no credibility, so I wanted to show copy and paste on Mac – the precise task that James found so many problems with. So I present for your entertainment, copy and paste from Word on a Mac, the 30 second demo, complete with cheesy music. Naturally in QuickTime with iPhone optimized versions built in.

I had wanted to go over the top and do it all in the style of an old silent movie but there’s only so much time I can justify on this…