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Scripting News -- May 1997 | |
Saturday, May 31, 1997
A very coool redesign, with some ideas for the Frontier 5 site.NetscapeWorld: JavaScript 1.2's evolution as explained by its creator.
Don Larson suggests using Fractal Design's Poser to do the two hands giving each other 5.
Jim Roepcke: dynAuthor -- a suite of Frontier CGIs that make it easy for a webmaster to remotely edit, create and manage web pages and web sites using the Frontier web authoring framework.
Edward Leafe: suites.mailServer -- a basic outgoing-only mailing list server.
O'Reilly and Associates: Worldwide Web Journal.
Friday, May 30, 1997
Matthew Bardram: A design that incorporates both Scripting News and Frontier 5. It's getting interesting!Dan Sandler: Scripting News redesign.
Guest DaveNet: Jesse Berst on Web Development.
Dave Winer: The Next Design Challenge.
Test page for the Frontier 5 site.
Jesse Berst is singing our song on Anchor Desk. Right on!
Frontier 4, released in May 1996, over a year ago, had all the features described in Berst's piece. It's being refined and extended for Frontier 5.
Last week we pointed to the docs website for Vignette 2.2.
Thursday, May 29, 1997
Clearway: Top Twenty Tips for Mac Webmasters.Chicago Tribune: Frontier is a wild card.
Dave Winer: Java Needs Marimba?
Chuck Shotton: SiteWatcher; and Daniel Berlinger's traps table for Frontier.
Wednesday, May 28, 1997
HTML Rename! looks quite excellent.Microsoft updates the Channel Definition Format spec.
Purity Software: WebSentinel public beta.
John Norstad: WWDC Trip Report.
Changed formatting of this page so lines wrap properly in Netscape Navigator. If problems persist, please send mail to dwiner@well.com.
Frontier users: It's a good time to Save A Copy.
CNN: Death toll from Texas tornadoes continues to rise.
Prayers for our friends in Austin, from the land of many earthquakes...
Tuesday, May 27, 1997
Help Re-design the Scripting News Page.What comes after Java? You heard it here first.
Web designers and developers look for work on the Class Ads site.
WebTV added special effects to HTML before Microsoft did.
InfoWorld: Apple plans new CPUs, wreaks havoc with the clone vendors.
The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems plans to commission an article on the use of Frontier for automating editorial and production processes, and would like to hear from any publishing organization that uses Frontier. Please contact Thad McIlroy, Associate Editor, Seybold Publications, tkmcilroy@aol.com.
Monday, May 26, 1997
Updated: Nerd's Guide to the DaveNet Website.It would be great if someone who knows Frontier got this job.
Brad Schrick: Economics of ISPs.
Sunday, May 25, 1997
DaveNet: Think Seybold, Dave.Restarted: UserLand's Frontier-Central List.
Leonard Rosenthol on OSA Menu.
Saturday, May 24, 1997
All kinds of jobs in Help Wanted on the scripting.com Class Ads site.Updated: Outliner Suite.
Updated: UserLand's Frontier-Central List.
Friday, May 23, 1997
The SJ Mercury asks if the browser wars force users to choose between Microsoft's and Netscape's browsers. In today's DaveNet I explain why scripting makes it possible for Microsoft channels to be distributed thru Netscape's browser. A safe way forward for Netscape users, even if there are lots of CDF channels. You can view the source code for the CDF parser or download the software thru a fat page.Question: "Does Netscape provide hooks that allow a script to program its crawler?" Answer: We don't need access to their crawler, we have a crawler suite that works.
Crested Butte in September: Digital Storytelling Festival.
Vignette: StoryServer 2.2 Docs.
Frontier was Cool Tool of the Day yesterday.
Thursday, May 22, 1997
Microsoft's push technology white paper.Interesting project: Parsing CDF files in Frontier.
Transcript of the messaging and scripting session at the Be Developer Conference.
ListTools, A full-featured ListSTAR management suite. ($25 shareware)
DaveNet piece: A change would do you good.
KFOG, the Bay Area's #1 radio station.
The next piece of the foundation for the upcoming Frontier-based editorial workflow system: Remote Web Page Editing.
Wednesday, May 21, 1997
News.com: Netscape releases Netcaster beta (Windows only) and Microsoft announces push partnerships.Jango does the Metadata thing. (Windows only.)
Philip Greenspun: How to be a Web Whore Just Like Me.
I bet this US Senate bill will be popular with Internet users.
DaveNet piece: Metadata.
Rick Smolan is looking for ideas for his next project.
Here's a sampling of stuff from his previous project.
It's only three months past, but it seems longer: Breaking Rules.
Tonight in San Francisco: Last Saturdays, the Next 20 Years.
Right on! Simson Garfinkle on HotWired.
Tuesday, May 20, 1997
Check out the Frontier graphic on this page. Isn't it cooool? Yeah!A fresh start for the Classified Ads site.
News.com has a report that Apple COO George Scalise is resigning.
The BBEdit-Scripting list is now searchable.
PC WEEK: Great story on how IBM rebuilt its PC business.
A fresh start for the guestbook. If you use Frontier to manage your site, please sign the guestbook and link to your site. Thanks!
The final results of the TidBITS search engine shoot off. It's a fascinating piece, Frontier played an important role, and it sounds like it ain't over yet.
Check out Ole Saalmann and David Weingart's entry in the competition. They used Frontier, Filemaker and Quid Pro Quo.
Monday, May 19, 1997
Extra credit: Five points if you can name all three
people in this Mac The Knife mug shot.DaveNet piece: Scripting & Gardening.
Sunday, May 18, 1997
Fortune: Microsoft's OS strategy.Is there a website for Shoreline?
Thanks to Joshua Allen for a query that displays a list of all future Shoreline concerts.
Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury-News says: 'Our entertainment site can do what you want. Click on Music, then Search, enter Shoreline under "Where", click Go and you'll get a list of what's coming up there.' Right on. It works.
Here's an even better summary page of what's happening at Shoreline and other Bay Area venues.
And, thanks to Dan Sokol, the official Shoreline schedule page from Bill Graham Presents.
Saturday, May 17, 1997
DaveNet piece: Ashton-Tate's Framework.NetObjects: Fusion 2.0/Mac beta download.
A stylish Mac software company.
Friday, May 16, 1997
Philip Suh's Frontier Tip Center.Is Carl Steadman going to heaven or hell?
MacWEEK: Steve Jobs at WWDC and major changes in the Mac OS.
Ed Anuff responds in Mail Starting 5/16/97.
DaveNet piece: NewBot.
PC WEEK: First look at Netscape's Netcaster.
Testing ODB Server: an Internet-based glossary server.
Bug fix in the odbServer suite.
Wired has a new search engine, Newbot, which indexes high frequency sites. Unfortunately it only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows. Honestly, I think the benefit of pushing search queries to your desktop isn't worth the trouble. Just having a search engine that indexes sites every 15 minutes is enough of a payoff, who needs the gee-whiz aspects of the ActiveX stuff?
I wrote about "just in time" search engines in Floating Ideas, 9/7/96.
SJ Mercury: Exponential shuts down.
Thursday, May 15, 1997
Another piece of the foundation for the upcoming Frontier-based editorial workflow system: the odbServer suite.Wednesday, May 14, 1997
Yes, geeks dig Frontier. But a little-known feature makes it an essential tool for non-geekish power users and web developers. I wish more people knew about it!News.com: MSIE 3.01 for the Mac, includes support for fat web pages.
Big Frontier site: Australian Graphic Design Association.
Tuesday, May 13, 1997
Foundations for the upcoming Frontier-based editorial system: The people and custody suites.
The US Robotics Palm Pilot PDA is booming. It has a 68K processor, and there's support for it in Metrowerks' CodeWarrior. Chuck says he could do a web server for it. I think that's funny! An old DaveNet piece about PDAs. Hmmm. The loop closed the way it seemed it would. Finally, wouldn't a connection between Frontier's object database and the Palm PDA be interesting? Seems like Metrowerks is showing us how to do it. It's up for grabs, we're busy doing other stuff... 
"Is there a way for wannabe-geeks to use Frontier?" Hmmm. Do you use BBEdit?
Matthew McGlynn: Password Generator suite.
More bullets you can use in your websites...
Frontier CGI Framework 4.2b4, with important fixes.
WWDC Attendees Get Free Frontier.
A new search engine for the Frontier community. It crawls scripting.com and the LTODBS and you can register sites built with Frontier or sites that support Frontier webmasters.
A trip down memory lane.
Monday, May 12, 1997
Another neat Frontier website.News.com: Hotwired, others, take another look at agents.
Citrix: Q&A on their thin client deal with Microsoft.
Fat page: Using QBullets from Matterform
DaveNet: Do Galaxies Dream?
News.com: Deep Blue humbles chess master.
Dr. Weil's site on HotWired.
Apple Developer Conference webcast.
Friday, May 9, 1997
Web Review: Archiving the Web.Metrowerks: Latitude, Unix porting tools for Mac apps.
SJ Merc: Preview of the Be Developer Conference.
Be: Developer conference info.
Monday's schedule for Apple's developer conference.
Of Matt Neuburg's tutorials... Robert G. Palmer, Jr., an engineer at Omniview, says:
"I didn't take the time to read Matt's tutorials when they were first posted, but I was having some problems setting things up the way I wanted them so I went and read them.
"Nice job Matt! They are thorough and concise. I was able to make my site much cleaner and more organized by using the information in the tutorial. I am glad to see they are linked to on the Frontier main page.
"These are must reads for any newcomer."
Matt's tutorials: scripting and web building.
Thursday, May 8, 1997
New Frontier site: Vegetarian Society of Hawaii.Fat pages in folders... Our cross-platform file format continues to evolve.
Steve Silberman temporarily assumes a new identity.
Wednesday, May 7, 1997
A new Frontier site: Bullets Journal.Does this link break a Georgia law?
A fresh start for the Classified Ads server.
New Look for the Frontier Site.
DaveNet piece: Programmers.
A new Frontier site: People for Puget Sound.
Tuesday, May 6, 1997
News.com: Citrix and Compaq in a Network Computer deal.Finalized: SiteChanges Suite.
Mark Roseman: Macintosh TCL Projects.
Reed Elsevier in an electronic publishing deal with Microsoft.
Dethe Elza on TCL in Frontier, with a response from Dave Winer.
Marc Andreessen has the JavaScript religion.
Seattle Times: On stage theatrics exposes a security hole in ActiveX?
Monday, May 5, 1997
The Artemis Project is developing a private lunar base.The Planetary Society is devoted to the exploration of the solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life.
How to set up your own NewsPage site.
Andy J. Williams starts a News Page.
Home Automation and Security for the Macintosh.
Todd Rundgren wants you to buy his music directly, without going thru the record companies.
Chuck Shotton on Ticketmaster.
Pantheon's web publishing system.
Seattle Sidewalk: An example of a link that Ticketmaster is suing Microsoft over.
DaveNet: Do you have a Head?
Keeping a Frontier-based web server happy.
Chris Gulker starts a News Page.
Sunday, May 4, 1997
2/28/97: Don's Amazing Puzzle.Friday, May 2, 1997
Infoworld: Scripting support in 'Memphis'.NetObjects: Component Development Kit.
ComputerWorld: Ticketmaster sues Microsoft. Comments?
DaveNet: Proof that you Exist.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Robert Hess on high flow sites, with a sidebar on DaveNet.
Seattle Post: Java may be bitter brew for Microsoft.
Jon Pugh: Base64 encoding-decoding for HyperCard.
Thursday, May 1, 1997
New version: webBrowser.getFrontWindowSource.Agree or disagree? Syntax religion is boring. I want tcl to run in Frontier.
Sun attempts to define cross-platform scripting, but only one Mac developer is on their vendors page.
Peter N Lewis's Script Daemon.
A neat script that converts a Frontier scheduler log outline to an HTML file once every hour on the hour.
More features and fixes for Frontier's scheduler.
Webintosh: Java Virtual Machine showdown.
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