[support] How to insert links to other pages on the same site?

[Earl Miles]

cl at isbd.net wrote:
> But why aren't there good non-browser site management suites?  Or are
> there some that I have missed?

That's a good question. I'm going to take a shot in the dark on the answers:

1) Web tools are inherently machine/OS agnostic; making non-browser tools that 
are machine/OS agnostic is difficult. Meaning that someone could come up with a 
fantastic package for say, MacOS, Windows or Linux but then there's difficulty 
porting the package. Though it's true that one could try to write something in 
Java which is much more portable.

2) The expertise to write such tools is quite different from the expertise 
required to write these web tools. They would need to be in a different 
language, to start, but really there is a huge separation between what Drupal 
currently uses and what something like this would require.

3) The tool would likely be complicated by the inherently interactive nature of 
this kind of website. The idea of a Drupal-based site is that multiple 
maintainers can do their thing, and that adds another layer of complexity.

4) While complexity isn't really a barrier if enough people are interested in 
the tool, there just isn't a huge demand for it. Most designers are ok with 
doing it on the Web. Yes, Drupal takes a lot of grief for its UI being 'behind 
the times' so to speak, and this is one area we've been addressing. But the 
demand for tools like this has to come from the people capable of writing them; 
that's the joy and sorrow of opensource. Just because people want something 
isn't enough; it has to be wanted by people capable of creating it.