• Cache for JSP templates
• Wysiwyg editor (HtmlArea) for Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Mozilla 1.3+
• Multilingual back-office (english and french for the moment)
• New design for the back-office, more user-frendly, with shortcuts
• MyAccount page with my last modified articles, my saved searches, my article to validate or publish, my personal information
• Life cycle publication
• Lost password function
• Lock/unlock function for articles
• Workflow for article validation and publication and multistate for articles (draft, in process of validation, published)
• Rights management of creation, validation or publishing articles in sections.
• Right writing or validating articles in sections depends of groups or users
• New module system not intrusive
• Module "image upload"

Cofax is a web-based text and multimedia publication system. It was designed to simplify the presentation of newspapers on the Web and to expedite real-time Web publication.

It was designed originally at Knight Ridder to serve the content for several of its newspapers, including its largest, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. Cofax was the tool it used to manage and build numerous web sites across its network for two years.

Concepts Cofax technology pioneered are featured in Knight Ridder's new, more extensive CMS solution called the Single Digital Platform, launched February 2, 2002.

Currently, Cofax is used across the world as an open source, scalable and powerful content management solution provided by numerous independent solution providers.

One of the companies the project is indebted to is Smile. Their work in bringing Cofax to MySQL helps to for fill the promise of its designed database independence.

Read more in our Introduction to Cofax.