Scott Clark

WebCriteria Inc. Wednesday unveiled its next-generation SiteProfile service. At SiteProfile’s core is “Max,” an intelligent browsing agent that simulates a typical user, and how they see, think and move through a Web site. Max is able to determine how fast and easy it is for visitors to navigate through a Web site and find desired […]

Macromedia Inc. Monday released FreeHand 9, its design and layout software that was created specifically for cross-media publishing. Macromedia (MACR) hopes that FreeHand 9 will change the way designers approach their work by providing a toolset for vector graphics for both print or Web. New features and enhancements include Flash integration, increased productivity, and new […]

CERT this week issued an advisory about malicious HTML tags that can be embedded in client Web requests. The concern is that a Web site may inadvertently include malicious HTML tags or script code in a page that is dynamically generated, based on input from untrustworthy sources that has not been validated. Typically, this can […]

The Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday released the “Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0” (ATAG 1.0) specification as a recommendation. The guidelines are meant to provide guidance to developers on how to design accessible authoring tools that produce accessible Web content. The W3C Recommendation indicates that the specification is “stable, contributes to the universality of the […]

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Tuesday endorsed the W3C‘s Recommendation for XHTML, sending a message to browser makers that standards should remain a priority. XHTML, Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, combines the best features of HTML with the flexibility and database-oriented functionality of XML, combining text and other data types into a single, extensible standard that […]

The World Wide Web Consortium Thursday released the XHTML 1.0 specification as a W3C Recommendation. This specification indicates cross-industry and expert community agreement on the importance and benefits of XHTML 1.0 “as a bridge to the Web of the future.” Until this point, HTML has served as the basis for publishing hypertext on the Web. […]

Searchbutton.com Wednesday announced its new CommunitySearch service which enables Web site owners to create a collection of searchable sites, or “micro-portals” from their own Web site. By implementing CommunitySearch, site owners can create micro-portals to expand the breadth of their own content, enabling visitors to more easily search for information from a ring of related […]

Web Crossing, Inc. Tuesday released an update to its online discussion software. Web Crossing 3.1 is now faster, with Spell Checking, server-side JavaScript and more. The tool features self-scheduled backups, NNTP support, HTML-only chat, the implementation of XML-RPC and other enhancements and bug fixes. Also new for this release, the Unix version has a more […]

The AlphaCONNECT Internet division of AlphaServ.com, which soon will extolling its technologies under the NQL Solutions name, has incorporated a new feature into its Network Query Language (NQL) which “leverages the mobility of the Palm VII.” Programmers will be able to create and deploy intelligent agent-based applications from a Palm VII mobile computing device by […]

The Sun–Netscape Alliance Thursday announced the latest version of its iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 4.1 and its new FastTrack Edition 4.1 software. These products now include support for the Linux operating system and the latest Java technologies. These latest additions enable iPlanet Web Server software to provide users with an even wider degree of […]

Demicron this week released WireFusion, a new Java-based programming tool. WireFusion is a drag-and-drop visual programming tool designed to allow non-programmers to create Java applets and illustrations quickly and easily–knowledge of the Java language is not required. WireFusion enables designers to use drag-and-drop techniques and visually connect preprogrammed objects using different functions, creating advanced, interactive […]

FileMaker Inc. this week announced the release of the worldwide, English version of FileMaker Pro 5 Unlimited. This release of FileMaker Pro 5 will allow Web-based database publishing for non-programming intranet and Internet developers. FileMaker Pro 5 Unlimited offers two options for dynamicly publishing databases to the Web: FileMaker Pro Web Companion and a new […]