Scott Clark

StarNine Technologies Inc. this week released the public beta version of its WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0. This release comes as a major upgrade to StarNine’s WebSTAR suite of integrated Internet server software. New features include: A dramatically faster Web server A new SMTP/POP/IMAP email server with LDAP and remote Web-based email Lasso-based FileMaker Pro and […]

Empress Software Inc. this week announced support for XML in its recent release of Empress Hypermedia V8.20, the Internet Applications Development Toolkit. Empress Software hopes to “power the high degree of data interchange within business applications on the Internet, intranets and extranets.” Empress Hypermedia V8.20 provides full control by defining tags and structural relationships between […]

Extensibility on Friday announced the beta release of XML Authority, a group of schema development tools which enable developers to quickly model, create and manage XML schemas using a variety of sources. XML Authority is able to generate schemas using sources such as existing Document Type Definitions (DTDs), Java classes, ODBC data structures, COM objects […]

RightDoc Company this week announced the release of RightDoc 2.0, an XML and CSS standards-based business document writer and cross-media publishing engine. RightDoc provides multi-faceted Enterprise or Web-based business document solutions, and provides companies with the ability to generate personalized billing statements, letters, financial statements, invoices, forms, legal contracts, and business intelligence reports. RightDoc supports […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. will announce version 2.0 of its site management tool, Astra SiteManager next week at the Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference in New York. New functionality in the upcoming version includes the ability to schedule unattended Web site scans, create customized HTML-based reports, and predict download times for an accurate forecast of Web […]

The foundations of the Web are becoming increasingly shaky due to browser incompatibilities, according to a report released Friday by the Web Standards Project. The World Wide Web Consortium has been a standards body for the Web since the Web’s inception, but key Web standards remain incompletely implemented. This has caused developers to choose between […]

AccuSoft Corp. Thursday released NetVue V3.0, the newest version of its Web-centric document management solution. Version 3 of NetVue includes many innovative features for document management, electronic commerce and Web publishing. NetVue facilitates the viewing and annotation of documents and images at high speeds using a standard browser. The NetVue Document Streaming (NDS) generator increases […]

Karsten Sohr at the University of Marburg in Germany recently uncovered a serious security flaw in several current versions of the Java Virtual Machine, including Sun’s JDK 1.1 and Java 2 (a.k.a. JDK 1.2), and Netscape’s Navigator 4.x. The bug allows an “attacker” to create a Web page which enables the attacker to seize control […]

Media Design in*Progress this week announced the release of Emili Lite, the first XML editor for Macintosh. Emili Lite is the demo version of the commercial Emili XML editor, which is scheduled to be released at the end of April. Emili Lite enables developers to work with XML, without requiring a detailed knowledge of the […]

ParaSoft Monday announced the release of WebKing’s first plug-in module, CodeWizard for HTML. CodeWizard for HTML is an error prevention utility which enables developers to ensure that their site works on all browsers by enforcing HTML coding standards. Coding standards can reduce the number of errors in a site, as well as make code more […]

Tenon and Aestiva Friday released Aestiva’s HTML/OS, software for developing dynamic Web sites on the Mac OS and Mac OS X Server. HTML/OS supports WebTen on Mac OS and WebTen or Apache on OS X Server. HTML/OS is an extension to standard HTML which enables developers to do on-the-fly word-processing, spreadsheet, database and programming operations […]

Sign Me Up Marketing Thursday released XBuilder version 2.1, the multi-purpose tool that converts dynamic Web sites, including multi-language international sites, to static HTML. XBuilder provides developers with an affordable method of generating a static site. This allows search engines to crawl dynamic sites to drive traffic to the site, ensures quality control, enhances performance […]