Scott Clark

LaGarde, Incorporated this week announced the release of its StoreFront E-Commerce for Microsoft FrontPage, a product that enables developers to develop e-commerce solutions using Microsoft’s FrontPage and IIS products. LaGarde is targeting the point-and-click development tool at potential users looking to get into the electronic commerce market. Electronic commerce-enabled sites developed with StoreFront allow shoppers […]

SoftQuad Inc. this week announced the release of the HoTMetaL Application Server and the HoTMetaL Power Pack beta. The SoftQuad HoTMetaL Application Server is a server-based engine that provides users with the ability to host dynamic Web applications with full security and low maintenance. SoftQuad is targeting the HoTMetaL Application Server at professional hosting service […]

The World Wide Web Consortium this week announced it issued the first public working draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification. Applications built using the P3P specification will allow Web sites to declare their privacy practices automatically, and the users’ browser will understand the privacy declaration. The privacy practices of the Web site […]

Macromedia, Inc. recently announced the release of the public beta of Flash Generator, its new server-based software that uses Flash 3 templates to generate Web graphics–on the fly–using dynamic data. Using Flash 3, developers can design graphic templates, which themselves are then linked to a data file and served by Flash Generator. Flash Generator can […]

SimpleNet this week announced it signed a licensing agreement with SoftQuad Inc. under which it will offer support for the SoftQuad HoTMetaL Application Server, a powerful Web application development environment. The agreement builds upon SimpleNet’s strategy to increase the value-added services it offers to the Web development community. The HoTMetaL Application Server enables developers to […]

MaxSol, Inc. today introduced DbLive@Web 2.0, the first completely 100% browser-based development toolkit to build business intelligence (BI) applications that can be deployed on extranets. The product is both Java-independent and “cookie-free.” In an interview with Tony Giroti, president of MaxSol, Inc., we were told that DbLive@Web provides for tight security so that developers don’t […]

AccuSoft Corp. recently released the AccuSoft Web Animator, which enables developers to create Web animations, banners, and ads using point-and-click methodology. The Web animator may be utilized to edit pre-existing animated GIFs, and improve the performance of Web sites by compressing and optimizing the animated GIF images which are being used on the site. The […]

Pixel Translations, a division of Input Software, Inc., today announced PixTools for Java, a pure Java toolkit that includes a rich set of JavaBeans designed to deal with the client-based decompression and display of images. The PixTools toolkit comes with everything needed to develop platform-independent imaging clients, or add additional document imaging capabilities to Java […]

Netscape Communications Corporation this week announced that the patent claims raised by Wang Global against the company have been dismissed by a federal judge. The court also rejected a similar suit filed by Wang against America Online, Inc. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Wang’s patent on the “Videotex” […]

Intel Corporation and MetaCreations Corporation this week announced a new open PC file format designed to allow developers to create “scalable 3-D” content for use in games and Web site-based applications. The MetaStream 3-D file format–designed for the Intel Architecture–enables authors to develop 3-D objects that will perform optimally using an average Pentium II processor-based […]

Solutionsoft today announced the availability of the pre-release version of Perl Builder, the first IDE (integrated development environment) for Perl. Perl Builder includes a visual editor and debugger, along with tools designed to help automate the Perl development process. The Perl Builder IDE features a CGI simulator that enables developers to create, debug, and test […]

NetObjects, Inc. launched ScriptBuilder.com this week, an online resource for developers creating both client- and server-side scripts. The site’s content is targeted at developers looking to add sophisticated animation effects and interactivity, advanced transaction capabilities, and other application functionality to Internet and intranet sites. ScriptBuilder.com does not concentrate on any specific scripting language or platform, […]