John Lewell

NetObjects recently acquired the Infuse scripting editor from Acadia Software, and today announced the official “prerelease” version of its first upgrade to the software, which is now called NetObjects ScriptBuilder 2.0. The newest version of ScriptBuilder 2.0 is based on the prerelease version of Infuse 2.0. NetObjects incorporated various enhancements into ScriptBuilder 2.0, including functionality […]

Luckman Interactive, Inc. today at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles unveiled Web Studio 2.0, the Web “toolbox,” which contains a wide variety of tools that developers can utilize to create top notch Web sites. Using Web Studio 2.0, even novice developers can create Web sites that showcase HTML, Java, access to databases, VRML, and […]

Information Builders this week released its WebFOCUS Suite, a set of 100% Pure Java applets that extend the functionality of the company’s WebFOCUS Application Server. The WebFOCUS Application Server enables dynamic database reporting and publishing on the Web potentially using over 70 types of databases. This includes legacy data as well as data which is […]

ELS, Inc. and Digi-Net Technologies this week announced the first public beta release of DigiChat, a client/server chat product designed specifically for Internet service providers (ISPs) and educational or corporate Webmasters. Private beta testers testing DigiChat praised the text screening features of DigiChat’s ChatGuardian which blocks “inappropriate language.” Unlike other chat servers, DigiChat allows an […]

The National Association of Webmasters is preparing for Webfair98 L.A., which is taking place next week at Spring Internet World ’98 being held in Los Angeles, CA. The association will be bringing together a coalition of organizations and groups who have dedicated their time and resources to provide demos, hands-on teaching, and training for young […]

Globalink introduced today Comprende WebMaster, a service that lets small companies offer their Web site in five additional languages as well as understand and reply to e-mail inquiries from overseas customers. For a monthly subscription fee, Globalink provides on-demand machine translation of a company’s site. The translation adequately presents to non-native-speaking visitors the “gist” of […]

After a lengthy testing period, Compware today released its Agile HTML Editor which includes support for the latest HTML features, making the tool popular with both hobbyists and professional developers. The Agile editor utilizes a different approach to most authoring packages, and is known as the “right-click editor” because of its easy HTML tag configuration. […]

GeoCities today announced it is offering “homesteaders”–those who host their Web site on GeoCities–free access to a trial version of HomeSpace, a 3D Web software tool from Cosmo Software. The free tool may be downloaded from the Cosmo HomeSpace Pavilion on GeoCities, which is the Web’s largest and some say fastest growing community of free […]

Superscape and Logitech announced that the new version of Superscape’s 3D authoring software, VRT5.50, will be bundled with a Logitech Space Mouse 3D Controller as part of the standard package. The Logitech Space Mouse 3D Controller is not just a souped-up mouse, but rather a professional input device for designing real-time 3D Web pages with […]

MicroEdge, Inc. and Synkronix, Inc. this week announced an OEM agreement under which Synkronix will distribute MicroEdge’s programmer’s editor, Visual SlickEdit, within its new PERCobol tool. PERCobol, scheduled to begin shipping mid-March, is a compiler that generates 100% pure Java programs from ANSI COBOL-85 source code. The Java source which is generated from PERCobol can […]

Sumo, Inc. will launch the Ultimate Web Design List next week, a resource that includes a detailed directory of Web design firms, along with samplings of Web designs, monthly awards and reviews, and Web design news. The Ultimate Web Design List features five Web design “services,” including “Showcase,” “Spotlight,” “Yellow Pages,” “Resume Bank,” and the […]

The World Wide Web Consortium this week announced the release of its Proposed Recommendation for the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), a markup language that enables Web pages to effectively communicate the language of mathematics. The release of the MathML as a Proposed Recommendation indicates that the W3C Math Working Group “has determined that MathML is […]