Ephox, a provider of online authoring software, has unveiled a new version of text editor EditLive! V 7, which integrates with IBM Lotus Web Content Management and IBM Lotus Quickr software.
The company said that the new version of EditLive! allows business users to create content in a desktop word processing environment. It comes with new features that enhance user productivity, team collaboration and website quality. It also helps non-technical users to keep the company web sites, blogs and wikis up-to-date with relevant online content.
The company said that the EditLive! V7 supports Autosave functionality that will preserve content, even if the web browser crashes, or the server session times out. It also includes templating functionality, giving content administrators the ability to create reusable content templates for consistent web site styles and standards that can be employed by business users.
According to Ephox, the HTML editor improves collaboration for online documents with new context-based commenting capabilities, in which users can comment directly on any text or object in a document and track conversations related to specific comments. It also adds broken hyperlink reporting, for quality of content in web sites and wikis.
The new version of EditLive! includes enhanced integration with IBM Lotus Web Content Management and deploys as an application in the portal environment. In addition, performance improvements of up to 70% have been achieved through a series of optimisations to caching, configuration and compression mechanisms, the company claims.
Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox, said: “Ephox’s EditLive! helps IBM Lotus Web Content Management customers to enable business users – the subject matter experts – to create and deploy rich content. EditLive! V7 offers a wealth of new features.”
The OEM version in addition to new functionality in EditLive!, includes features that were previously only available in the Enterprise Edition.
