Belus Announces Major Enhancements To Its Leading XHTML WYSIWYG Editor - XStandard
TORONTO - August 12, 2004 - Belus Technology today announced the much-anticipated new version of "XStandard". XStandard is the most advanced, standards-based WYSIWYG editor available. Used in Windows and browser-based content management systems to manage rich, multilingual content of any type, XStandard is the WYSIWYG editor of choice for organizations serious about Web standards.
New features in version 1.3 of XStandard include a "Directory" service that permits users to browse and import content from third-party applications or any type of centrally stored information repository. This includes heavily formatted content; for example an entire chunk from a product catalogue, combining elements such as tables, text, images and hyperlinks.
Version 1.3 of XStandard also supports importing non-standard or "bad" markup produced by other editors, and improved retention of structural elements when content is pasted from Microsoft Word into XStandard.
XStandard's technical user experience is now enhanced by syntax highlighting in View Source mode and a fully customizable toolbar. The latter makes it easy to blend XStandard's appearance into that of content management systems and to add toolbar buttons that extend XStandard's functionality.
"We're seeing marked interest in XStandard in Europe," commented Vlad Alexander, head of development at Belus Technology. "That suggests Europeans more clearly understand that implementing Web standards must begin with the millions of non-technical users now managing the world's content online. These users urgently require a tool that can be guaranteed to generate clean, accessible markup directly, at the content authoring stage. XStandard does that."
Markup produced by XStandard complies with the latest W3C recommendation: XHTML Strict / 1.1. Other mainstream WYSIWYG editors produce non-standard markup during the authoring process, then run code clean-up routines against it. This approach is indirect, expensive and delays the publishing cycle. It also typically results in XHTML 1.0 Transitional that has the disadvantage of tolerating the fusion of content with presentation. XStandard follows W3C's recommendation and uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for presentation. This ensures data is free from formatting and easy to parse and re-purpose.
XStandard is available in "Lite" and "Pro" versions. The Lite version is free. See the full list of XStandard Features or download XStandard at http://xstandard.com
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About Belus Technology Inc.
BelusTechnology is a software development company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Belus produces high-performance products and components based on forward-looking industry standards such as XML, XHTML and Web Services. XStandard is a registered trademark of Belus Technology Inc.
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Belus Technology Inc.
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