“Despite more than 30 years of mainstream use of office authoring tools, not much has changed. Increasingly, enterprises deliver documents to customers in forms that aren’t fit for purpose. The next decade will reveal new cloud-native, data-driven, and structured approaches to document authoring.” Forrester, The Future Of Documents, December 2020. Wow! At Fonto we fell […]
Moving from documents to data Read More »
When standards reach the ‘draft for review and public comment’ stage they are made available to the public. Back in the days, the mailman was involved in this process. Then the fax machine took over and at the start of this century, the web provided new opportunities, changing the public comment process for good. Web-based
Use case: Fonto Review for Standards Developing Organizations Read More »
We have been working tirelessly behind the scenes in preparation for the major features we’ll be bringing out toward the end of the year. We’re very excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too! Naturally, we won’t be leaving you empty-handed this release. We’re releasing 7.15 with quite a few customer-requested features,
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A few days ago I wrote a fuzzer for our XPath engine. A fuzzer is essentially a tool for finding bugs in code automatically by generating random inputs for a program and seeing whether it crashes on those inputs. Take a look at the following definition from Wikipedia: Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated
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It’s the first release of the new year, and we’re starting off with a bang. We’ve breathed new life into one of our earliest products: Fonto Content Quality. This entails a complete redesign and many new features, guaranteed to improve the user experience considerably. If you’re not yet familiar with Fonto Content Quality, it is
Release 7.14: Looking hot Read More »
It’s finally here! After tirelessly working on our new documentation portal, we’re very excited to announce that its website has launched. The new website contains all the articles from before, except it’s much faster, more structured, easier to search and quicker to navigate. Click here to visit. We’ve also showered our Outline with love this
Release 7.13: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Read More »
This blogpost is part of a series on improving the performance of implementations of the Fonto editor. In our experience, XPath is often one of the biggest bottlenecks for the editor’s performance. This is logical if you look at most modern Fonto APIs: SX configuration, mutation hooks and even custom sidebars use a lot of
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During the autumn of 2020, Great Place to Work extensively surveyed the Fonto team on five key values: credibility, respect, fairness, pride and camaraderie. Based on the outcomes of this survey, Fonto is now officially a ‘Great Place to Work’! Fonto scored above the benchmark on each of the key values. Employees are proud to
"100% of the Fonto employees say it is a great place to work" Read More »
Anyone involved in creating and managing documents understands how quickly things can turn chaotic when multiple contributors and stakeholders are involved. Unfortunately, many businesses still operate the same way they did a decade ago: emailing Word files and PDFs across teams to collect input and approvals. These archaic ways of working no longer cut it, according
6 must-haves for a better solution to structured content authoring Read More »
How to scalably support tens of thousands of pages of technical documentation related to complex hardware and software setups? Yordan Ugrinov, Content Operations and Engineering manager, talks about the current state of structured content authoring at VMware. VMware is known for its cloud platform solutions and services. These solutions rely on well-documented instructions, which are
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