Re:Who does all of the sh*t work? (Score 1)

I agree that sentence two is the operative factor at play here. Gregor and I talked about this motivation (or rather, non-motivation) in the first article back in September.

However, in the CMS world, it leads to a serious problem. Most people that write content in the world aren't software developers. Maybe they are manager, or secretaries, or public administrators. They already have a tool they use to write all their content.

MS and Apple (the #1 and #2 end user vendors) both have desktop integration with WebDAV. You can treat a DAV server as folder and shove stuff in it. And I'm sure some in this thread will claim that MS has bastardized DAV, but the truth is, you can connect quite easily to an Apache DAV server.

This is a real benefit for users. Would you rather futz through some bizarre HTML interface that made you do a file upload for every change, or just do drag-and-drop? If you say the former, you're obviously not the target market. :^)

Thus, while this is uninteresting to developers, it is interesting to users and thus decision-makers. And they will make decisions we won't really (in the aggregate) like.