This is UserLand Software's MIDAS website. Here are the projects that we're active in and our contributions to the MIDAS process.
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A protocol that makes it possible to edit text and scripts stored in Frontier's object database using specialized editors such as BBEdit and Script Debugger.
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The author of Script Debugger comments on the Apple Event Interface for External Editing.
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Here's a proposal for a new tag to be supported by web browsers.
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With more web servers coming on the market there's an opportunity to streamline the connection to Frontier.
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A web based discussion is taking place about the future of glossaries.
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C source code that makes it easy to encode handles in a MIME-compatible way.
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Starting with Frontier 4.2 we are hinting our HTML. Here's how...
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A couple of months ago I started talking with members of the MIDAS group about what could be done beyond Internet Config 1.2 for storing information that's accessible to all net clients, servers, and content software running on a Mac.
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An attempt to resolve a long-term confusing issue -- how to delimit macros in text that's going to flow out to the web.
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Chuck Shotton's spec for the <macrosyntax> tag.
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We document the current mail agent protocol implemented by Eudora and Frontier, and suggest a framework allowing other mail clients to hook in.
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Here's a listing of all the important pieces of the Mail Agent framework as implemented in Frontier.
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UserLand is working on both sides of the Meta Content Format spec -- in content tools and in browsers.
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Formation of Macintosh Internet Developers Association (MIDAS) Announced at MacWorld.
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This was the first message on the MIDAS mailing list, from Chuck Shotton, cshotton@biap.com, Mon, Jul 29, 1996.
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Sorting out conflicts between page rendering software, across platforms.
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We need a faster lower-tech connection to FileMaker.
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What should happen when you cmd-2click on some text in any Macintosh application.
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The spec that connects emailers, news readers, FTP clients and web browsers on the Macintosh, at the simplest level.
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Why UserLand is participating in MIDAS.
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Defacto standards
John Norstad, j-norstad@nwu.edu, developer of NewsWatcher and one of the designers of the URL Standard Apple Event Suite back in 1994, asked that the Midas group take responsibility for the evolution of the standard. I volunteered to store the text of the spec on my website. This suite is now broadly supported by Mac net clients. Anyone have a list?
Midas coverage on DaveNet
I wrote about this in [Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "glossary".]
, 7/16/96. It contains a call to action to developers, non-Macintosh platform vendors, and high technology investors. Midas is the response to that call.
Then, from the floor of MacWorld Expo/Boston, on 8/7/96, I wrote a brief DaveNet piece, [Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "glossary".]
, that contained the press release announcing MIDAS, and a few brief comments.
Since then, MIDAS has actually started to function. It's great to have a place to take problems that don't just belong to one company. Let's make it happen, let's make it work!
Other MIDAS Sites
Dave Winer
UserLand Software
Macintosh Internet Developer Association