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At least Mambo's 4.5 (1.09) in Opera 7.50 (build 3778) works for me

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Because it uses (from my poor and short experience) more fundamental and logical basis of rights separation and aggragation - it operates on levels of module-block-usergroup, not at level "this user and this pice of HTML-code". Mambo's user-rights concept is more ecletical and limited - even adding new categories must be done by hack.
From other side - I like idea of "inline editing" on page allowed to edit conent and can see in in XOOPS (in core and in reviwed and used modules), but, probably, I miss something

Quote:A-ha... I must run and use this monster (I have it anyway, but for XOOPS themes good text editor is enougth most time). I can preview theme without big problem outside DW... can not in Mambo case

i very much like mambo, and i also like the fact that i've been able to setup a network of sites running off of one installation of mambo, sharing the userbase and forums (SimpleBoard)

there's a couple of nice components for mambo (modules in XOOPS world) that are lacking from the XOOPS community, and vice versa. i like all the 'eye candy' of mambo, because i want a site that will look kickass to my userbase.


but like several have stated, coding for XOOPS seems to be a much better process. file structure/layout is much smarter and organized, and working in the mambo community and whatnot seems to be a bit of a hassle for me (their community sites don't seem cohesive enough, seem too broken up, whereas i have no problem going between XOOPS and dev.xoops to find what i need)


there's definitely some things XOOPS needs to learn from mambo tho, such as the eye-candy factor, as well as the wysiwyg, file/image manager, etc.

and the mambots are nice, kinda like hooks i reckon. they work well for me, and it's nice to have a 'mambot' that will replace specified text with whatever i want.


aaaanywho, i've been building that multi-site network that i spoke of, but i'm not sure that i will continue working on it, because i can't find a *good* gallery software that i like, in mambo (Gallery gives me issues when i try to integrate it)

not sure yet, because we've put alot of work into these sites.

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At least sharing tables from one common base is possible with Xoops-module now... nor a big deal hack it to work even over TCP/IP

And I must to agree, Mambo's themes (nothing beside it) are more attractive for my user's eyes (comparision was done over 65/86 public themes)

If those themes are released with an Open copyright (GPL, Creative Commons) there is nothing preventing someone to port those themes to XOOPS as well (*wink*)

hhttp://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=MamboThemeImport
just do it :)