David Fiedler

The Linux operating system continues to build momentum, confounding the pundits who have been predicting for years that when the smoke cleared, only Windows would be left standing. The latest news involves Scriptics. Scriptics provides developer support for the Tcl language and is run by John Osterhout, the language’s creator. Tcl, an extendible open source […]

NetObjects, Inc. announced NetObjects Fusion 4.0, the latest version of its Web site-building software, which is being positioned for creating business sites, including dynamically generated data and e-commerce. In addition, Fusion has been completely redesigned to use a Java-based component architecture and includes connectors to products such as Allaire ColdFusion and iCat Commerce Online. Fusion […]

Macromedia Inc. Monday announced Director 7 Shockwave Internet Studio, the new version of their multimedia authoring tool, as well as a matching Shockwave 7 player. The name change is an attempt to link the Director name with the more well-known Shockwave brand, since not everyone realizes that Director is the creation tool for Shockwave content. […]

Macromedia today announced Dreamweaver 2, a new release of its professional Web authoring tool that adds new features for page design and production, visual authoring for dynamic publishing, site management, and Roundtrip XML. The new version has some exciting new features: Tracing: after a designer comes up with a rough image of what a page […]

NetObjects, Inc. today announced NetObjects ScriptBuilder 3.0, a powerful scripting environment for creating dynamic, customizable Web sites. In addition to significantly enhanced functionality, NetObjects ScriptBuilder 3.0 is the first product to support the proposed ECMA Script Component standard, bringing the power of an object oriented component architecture to script developers. Script Components are a new […]

Macromedia, Inc. today announced the release of Web Design 101, its new educational tool suite designed for degree-issuing institutions that offer Web design or Web design-related courses. Macromedia Web Design 101 is designed to teach students how to use each of Macromedia’s Web design tools, and includes six hours of hands-on course curriculum for each […]

A new study by Shelley Taylor Associates to be released on Aug. 25 concludes that in spite of their access to recent innovations in Web tools, software and hardware, surprisingly few Silicon Valley Web sites utilize available navigational aids or provide sufficient content for their three key external users: customers, investors and potential employees. The […]

BulletProof Corp. this week announced the upcoming release of JDesignerPro 3.0, the latest version of its flagship product suite. The new version of the visual server-side application builder includes the “Method Explorer,” designed to enable the development of Java modules for server deployment. By using JDesignerPro 3.0, the company stated that corporate Intranet developers have […]

The Perl programming language, still the most popular language used on dynamic Web sites, has gone through a significant upgrade with the recently released version 5.005. The new version includes improved Win32 support and has the potential to attract the growing market of Windows programmers, according to O’Reilly & Associates, the company that is coordinating […]

Macromedia, Inc. this week announced the release of Macromedia Generator, a solution for creating automated and personalized Web site graphics. Macromedia Generator is a server-based tool that utilizes templates that have been developed in Flash 3 to generate Web graphics dynamically by using “live” data. The Generator family of products includes the Developer’s Studio for […]

Netscape Communications Corp.’s latest release of its Communicator Web client includes a fix for the recently publicized security issue known as “Long Filename Mail vulnerability.” Although no incidents have been reported to Netscape, the company recommends that users upgrade to the newest Communicator 4.06 release in order to protect their computer systems from the potential […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the first public working draft of the Extensible Style Language (XSL) 1.0 specification. XSL joins Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the other W3C-developed style sheet language implemented in current popular browsers, as part of the W3C Style Sheets Activity. W3C will be developing both the XSL and CSS […]