Saturday, January 31, 1998

"Mail Starting 1/31/98".

Source for Palm Springs slide show.

I just registered Frontier 5 on windows95.com and . tucows. Hopefully the listings should appear in the next few days. If you have ideas where we should register our Windows software, please send mail to dave@scripting.com.

I signed up Scripting News for a bunch of search engines thru this service. Very nicely done, on a Mac, using WebSiphon. Great use of client-side JavaScript.

Now that Frontier 5 is shipping, we can start some longer-term projects. The first one I'd like to open for discussion is the XMLization of Frontier's website framework.

An interesting observation on the XML process. We have to help our competitors! This hurts, a little, but it's also fun. I've been watching an agent from Vignette crawl the XML files generated automatically when I work on Scripting News. There's no doubt we compete with them. That's the way it goes!

Apple points to Frontier 5 from their Hot News page. After all we've been thru, people ask if this is progress? Yes it is! Thank you Apple.

And thank you to Microsoft! Their enthusiasm for Frontier is an inspiration. Every day we make a new friend in Redmond, some days several! This company is widely misunderstood. The people are great, and the company is incredibly organized. They have decided to support us and Frontier, and we totally appreciate it.

And thank you to the Frontier community! We have the best users and co-developers. An incredibly diverse group of people, from all over the world. All ages, professions, nationalities, but one thing we all agree on, the future is bright! There's a huge spirit of accomplishment here. We help each other. We have fun!

Finally, to the Frontier 5.0 team, Doug Baron, Bob Bierman, Brent Simmons and Wesley Felter. This is the first release where I kicked back and watched. Frontier 5 is their accomplishment. Two operating systems! Man. We pulled it off! Wow. I'm so proud of these guys!

Here's the song for the release of Frontier 5. "A just machine to make big decisions. Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision. We'll be clean when their work is done. We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young!"

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