Scott Clark

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today released the Document Object Model Level 1 specification as a W3C Recommendation. The specification reflects cross-industry agreement on a standard API (Applications Programming Interface) for manipulating documents and data through a programming language (such as Java or ECMAScript/JavsScript). The specification defines the foundation of a platform- and language-neutral […]

REBOL Technologies, the creator of next-generation network-based messaging technologies, today announced the release of REBOL, a network messaging language. Designed to revolutionize the exchange and interpretation of information on the Internet, REBOL Technologies’ first product, REBOL/Core V1.0, is available for download at www.rebol.com. REBOL/Core is 100% platform- and operating system-independent, and currently available on the […]

Today at ISPCON Fall ’98, Red Hat Software, Inc., a leading distributor of the Linux operating system, announced that Intel, Netscape Communications Corporation, and venture capital firms Greylock and Benchmark Partners have taken minority equity positions in the company. Red Hat builds, maintains, and provides technical support for the Red Hat operating system. Linux runs […]

Sandpiper Networks, Inc., a provider of adaptive content distribution services, recently launched Footprint, a distribution outsourcing service designed to deal with capacity scaling and delivery response time problems for Web publishers. Available on a subscription basis, Footprint is made to let publishers share access to Sandpiper’s global network of custom Web servers. As a result, […]

Macromedia, Inc. announced today that its Macromedia Flash and Shockwave players will be included in the latest version of America Online Inc., to be distributed on the AOL 4.0 CD-ROM. The new marketing and distribution agreement with AOL will allow AOL’s reported 13 million users to automatically use Flash and Shockwave content such as games, […]

Alldomains.com, a provider of global domain name registration services, announced that Internet users can now search the entire WWW for domain names in every currently recognized domain extension, for free at www.alldomains.com. Alldomains.com’s Allsearch querying tool searches more than 675 currently recognized domain extensions including .com, .net, .org, as well as all country code domains […]

Allaire Corp. today announced HomeSite 4.0, the latest release of its HTML editing tool. The compay calls it WYSIWYN (What You See Is What You Need), meaning they proved an HTML editing view, a “design view” for visual page design, and a preview mode which uses IE 4.0 code to display what a page will […]

Metrowerks Inc. announced that it has licensed its Java Acceleration Technology for PowerPC to the Linux community. Metrowerks’ Java technology, a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler, will be provided to Linux users under a free non-commercial license similar to that used by Sun’s Java Development Source code. Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior Java acceleration technology provides a drop-in, JIT compiler […]

Netscape Communications Corp. announced Netscape Application Builder 3.0, a development environment for building multi-tier distributed applications deployed on Netscape Application Server software. Netscape Application Builder 3.0 provides a development solution for the Netscape Application Server deployment platform, delivering an integrated workspace of graphical tools and wizards that enables developers to build presentation, business, and data […]

DataChannel, Inc. today announced the release of DataChannel RIO 3.1, the first Intranet framework to enable two-way corporate portals through the use of a unified, browser-based interface. The latest release of DataChannel RIO is a significant upgrade from the 3.0 version. There are numerous features and usability enhancements to the product, including in-browser publishing capabilities. […]

NetBeans, Inc. and Cloudscape Inc. this week announced that NetBeans will ship Cloudscape’s embeddable Java database with upcoming releases of NetBeans, its all-Java IDE based on Swing/JFC. The Cloudscape database will be bundled with NetBeans Developer 2.0, and is expected to be available in November 1998. The combination will allow developers to create Java applications […]

RomeBlack this week announced its new Web Site Monitoring Program, ServerSentinel. ServerSentinel is a Java based application designed to allow Webmasters to monitor their Web servers, ensuring a consistant network responsiveness. ServerSentinel guards a Web server’s uptime by monitoring a specified port at selected intervals. The server administrator is notified immediately via e-mail when a […]