Wednesday, December 10, 1997

Public release of Frontier 5.0/Mac. Ye-hi!

Your choice -- Frontier 5.0a22 for Mac or Windows.

The new Frontier5-Mac List on the Mailing Lists page.

What does cross-platform really mean? Here are some interesting screen shots that show the differences in appearance of the Mac and Windows versions of Frontier 5.

If you do web work in Frontier 4, here are the most important changes in version 5. We'll update this page as we reorganize the Frontier 5 change notes and develop migration tools. Still more diggin to do!

Jim Roepcke is hosting a Frontier 5 feature requests site. Thanks!

Closing a loop: A September 1996 MacWEEK article talking about our then-planned port to Windows.

A DaveNet piece in the same period. IBM left the Mac business, the clones went away. It's still Apple Apple Apple. Oh well! Keep diggin guys and gals.

Elsewhere...

I wonder why MacWEEK has a story about Roaster closing as the top item on their site today, but no link to the release of Frontier 5.0a22/Mac? Are they a glass-half-empty pub???

Today in MacWEEK: Apple sales to slump in 1998. Let's do a bundle deal with Frontier and sell some Macs in 1998! There are still a lot of things Macs can do that Windows can't do. I haven't given up yet! {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}

Upside blasts MacroMedia. "It chewed up and spit out a handful of presidents and about $25 million in venture capital before briefly flirting with profitability in the mid-1990s..."

In PC WEEK, Microsoft asks "Why would someone want to run a slower [Java VM] that doesn't integrate well with products already installed on their desktop?"