Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
Perhaps. I do see where you're coming from. And I don't disagree.

Here's my personal perspective on it though:
I never trust any Microsoft products to create reliable content for web pages. Been burned too many times. I just never use them, at least not for that.
For better or worse, it means I have limited exposure to those problems, and have little insight on the technical mess behind it. I've never understood why people insist on using the wrong tool for the job.
While sometimes the markup by CKEditor is less than perfect, it's a million times better than Word can do. It's designed for the web. Word was not.

One of the things that influences what makes it into the Zen Cart core is "who's gonna maintain" the feature. So, given that I never use Word for web stuff, I'm certainly not the guy to become the subject-matter-expert who will maintain that feature of the software as things evolve. There's already enough things that need more maintenance that get missed either due to amount of time required ... or subject expertise required.
That's why having people contribute plugins is helpful: those who are passionate about the feature and vested in keeping it current are the best contributors to such features.
No I totally agree with you. I never use microsoft products to make web pages since I am a developer. I run my own business developing websites in Wordpress or Zen Cart, and that requires knowledge. I would never go anywhere near MS Word or any other MS Products, apart from Excel which has its uses as a 'go between', when developing websites. The majority of them are clunky and spit out totally unnecessary code. I am almost passionate about not going near them too. However, try telling that to a car salesman, or a carpet fitter, or a builder, or a cake maker. Do you see where I'm going?

Many of them use MS Products and often make the mistake of copying and pasting content direct from Word, which in turn creates us developers a BIG problem when trying to format content in totally the same style throughout a whole website.

I don't claim to be an expert either at MS Products, and wouldn't want to be. I despise MS Products if anything. I agree with you on CK Editor, all I was saying is that it would be nice to have a slightly better feature in Zen Cart. I could go on and start talking about how other CMS and Ecommerce Systems have developed, but I stick with Zen Cart for good reason. I believe it is probably the best ecommerce software out there. It just needs a few tweaks here and there to bring it bang up to date. I'm sure thats happening from what I have seen in other threads though, and I appreciate you guys are under pressure to give us on the outside the best you can do. So I'm not complaining, but I do worry sometimes that it gets a little left behind in some areas, unintentionally. That isn't a complaint though as I appreciate developing these things takes up time, and there's never enough of that!