A few years ago I looked into using a Content Management System (CMS) to develop a site for a friend. At the time there were a few choices including Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, and about a hundred more which you can test at Open Source CMS. Mambo was really the only player that had the needed feature set which included forum/gallery/blogs/etc all in one user based interface (thanks to the many extensions). The only issue was that the system was horribly unfriendly to the internet and its standards. Each control/plugin box on the page was wrapped in a table inside another table and finally another table. Doing any template work was nightmare-ish especially if you wanted to use proper XHTML and CSS; and don’t even get me started on accessibility. I didn’t end up doing the project because my recommendation was to write it all myself.

Today I came across a del.icio.us link from Jonathon Snook about how Mambo will be integrating Cake PHP for version 5.0. I wasn’t able to find a development time line but did come across some other interesting news.

The team has spent a considerable amount of time working on XHTML validation, WCAG 1.0 (Priority 1, 2, and some 3), removal of unnecessary and/or inaccessible JavaScript code, improved usability, plus much more.
from "Baking Mambo" written by Chad Auld

I hope that 4.7 comes out soon and that the work indicated by the preceding quote actually makes a difference. It would be great to see a success for Mambo that causes a cascade of other CMSs to follow suit.