OT: Client-based CMS

[Kurt Wall]

On Monday 20 June 2005 19:56, Michael Hipp enlightened us thusly:
> Does anyone know of a CMS (content management system) that runs on the
> client instead of the web host?

No. It doesn't even make sense to me, meaning that I'm not
sure how one would manage it, beyond creating the pages on
a client and pushing it to the server.

> Apologies if that sounds like a dumb question, but I've been looking at
> quite a few CMSs but they all seem to run on the host. This has 2
> distinct drawbacks:
>
> 1) It requires that you have control over the host (or a very
> cooperative web host provider).

...or write-access to $HOME (which assumes a shell account) and 
the ability to install apps into $HOME.

> 2) It eliminates any possibility of working on content offline.

Not at all. Develop offline, test, push it live. I do this all
the time.

Kurt