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Sitefinity 4.0 CTP – Avoid HTML Mode with Layouts

Sitefinity uses Telerik’s RadEditor to bring a Word-like text editing experience to the web browser.  RadEditor allows content editors to easily style and format text .  However, RadEditor also contains an HTML mode that can be used to directly inject HTML into the content. 

Because HTML mode allows raw HTML to be injected into the content, this feature can be used by savvy editors to create very advanced content layouts.  However, in my opinion, it is inappropriate to toggle into RadEditor’s HTML mode and create HTML formatting.  This should never be done in Sitefinity.  Not even by highly technical editors.  In fact, RadEditor’s HTML mode fundamentally defeats the purpose of having a WCMS.

Notepad with HTML.  The days before WCMS

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

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