Hi Benjamin, Let me answer your questions one at a time:
Does the CMS support custom development of applications within the content manager
I can understand your question in two ways: A: Is it possible to insert your custom applications into the Taesk interface ? You can definetly do this - we do it all the time, Taesk usually covers 80% of the functionality that our clients ask for, the remaining 20% are custom for that particular client and is developed and "plugged" into Taesk B: Is it possible from within the actual CMS interface to "develop" the sites/modules/whatever ? The answer is a very clear NO this is not possible, and this is by design! As professional webdevelopers our stance is that there is nothing worse than when you have to edit the html/css/code/whatever from within the CMS itself. First of in this situation you can't use your regular development tools and environment resulting in reduced productivity. Second it would add more features/buttons/interfaces that the regular content administrator would have to "understand not to click" and that would reduce the usability for those people. Taesk is first and foremost a CONTENT management system - not a "design management system" - and we take that quite literally.
secondly can i develop my custom modules within the framework.and finally what are
Absolutely (see point A above) - Taesk is designed to assist webdevelopers creating great websites by providing a lot of "ground" functionality which can make it very easy to build custom functionality. It is however also possible to code "old ugly php" completely independent of Taesk and then integrating it. In other words - Taesk is very very flexible when it somes to what you can do with it, both in terms of design but also in terms of custom development.
the listed drawbacks that the CMS has over other CMS in the market
This is a hard question. Right now the biggest drawback is the lack of public documentation, the second problem is low adaptation since up until now (where we have open sourced it) it has mainly been ourself who has used it. From a more technical point of view I would probably point to a relative low amount of available custom modules - if you look at e.g. Joomla you can find a ton of strange code bits/modules that does just about everything you ever dreamed about - Taesk on the other hand is more giving you some building blocks that you can combine in 1001 unique ways and thereby create some of the same functionality - but you have to stack the building blocks yourself! Even more concrete: without using a custom products database it can be hard to use Taesk for scale to e-commerce solutions containing really many products - understand me right - we have created many e-commerce solutions using Taesk, but if they are bigger than a certain size then you need to do some custom development. I could probably come up with 1000 other examples - like any other software/tool it is all about choosing the right tool for the job, and where Taesk really shines is when you (as a professional developer) need to create "regular" websites that are administrated by non-technical people Enjoy Michael Pedersen