Kupu was a 'document-centric'

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and

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. Inspired by Maik Jablonski's Epoz editor, it was written by Paul Everitt, Guido Wesdorp and Philipp von Weitershausen (and several other contributors, for a complete list refer to the CREDITS.txt file) to improve the

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code and architecture, pluggability, standards support, support for other webservers than

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(which was the original target platform for Epoz), configurability and a lot of other issues. Kupu was replaced by

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as the default

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in version 4. Kupu is mostly maintained by Duncan Booth. It is made available under a BSD-style license.

Kupu's features

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. Currently there is integration code for Zope 2,

and

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. Kupu can be customized and extended in several ways. For simple modifications, much of the configuration can be set as attributes on the editor iframe, while buttons, tools and layout can be changed via the

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. For larger customization there's a JavaScript plugin

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, and also the core has a clean and solid architecture to allow full extensibility. Kupu uses CSS in favor of

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for layout and presentation. It supports asynchronous saving to the server and sets event handlers from code instead of from the HTML (excepting the toolbar), which makes the code a lot cleaner. DOM functionality is used to build up HTML. On those fronts and others, it tries to use the most modern standardized techniques available on all supported browsers to ensure a good user-experience and clean code.

Etymology

Kupu is

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for "word, statement, remark". Kupu-kupu is

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for "butterfly". Hence, the blue butterfly is Kupu's mascot.

References

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