Thursday, August 20, 1998

Frontier 5.1.3 is released. Mac and Windows versions. Major fixes in the XML-Database feature, DLL support; huge tables, outlines and lists.

Technology Solutions: Blox 1.0b11 gets a new parser, completely redesigned to incorporate the "expat" engine, written by James Clark, the same parser being used for XML support in Netscape 5 and Perl.

XML Validator: Test your XML, see if Frontier 5.1.3 can parse it!

Fat Pages: suites.xmlMenu requires 5.1.3.

5.1.3's trial version expires on 1/1/99.

Real-world testing for 5.1.3. We looked for XML files on the net and ran them thru the 5.1.3 parser.

Reuters: US strikes terrorist bases in Afghanistan, Sudan.

R&D Campus for Sale in Maine.

CNN Site Moves Quickly.

MacInTouch is pointing to the Frontier security issue. It's important to circle the wagons when a hole is closed.

Project Cool: XML Tutorial.

NeoTrace: Traceroute program for Windows.

Chris Nolan gets the story on Garry Trudeau's project. A new soap on Fox, set in Seattle, about politics in the software industry. Melrose Place meets SillllyClone Valley. It's called Killer App.

From a random source, the real Clinton speech.

Variety: Big audience for Clinton speech.

Ronald Reagan, 3/2/77: "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

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