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Nomenclature des installations classées - Liste des activités soumises à la TGAP (édition octobre 2007)
Through The Web (TTW) authoring tools
Many of the tools are illustrated using Zope or Plone
JISC Technology and Standards Watch ReportThrough The Web (TTW) authoring tools
Paul Browning, University of Bristol, December 2003
The Web is over ten years old but it has yet to realise the vision of its founder - the Web, for most of its users, remains a read-only medium. Universities and colleges seem to be a long way from realising a write-enabled Web.
Within browser (or TTW - "Through the Web") editing technologies, when combined with a content management system (CMS), can provide a write-enabled Web. TTW authoring can be achieved using a number of approaches - some of the technologies have been available since 1996.
The Pre-millennial Web was characterised by a poor separation of content and presentation. It might be argued that the arrival of the Post-millennial Web saw many pages becoming more like a sandwich - with a clear separation into the bread (the presentational wrapping) and the meat (the content filling). A CMS with an integrated TTW authoring tool allows many unskilled users to edit the meat without messing up the bread.
The leading edge of TTW authoring is now characterised by "Context sensitive" tools. These tools mark an exciting new direction that will see unskilled users being able to edit individual page elements within the browser, but with validation being imposed by an underlying stylesheet.
