Mainstay this week launched OmniEdit.com, a Web site which provides a free service that lets
users edit their Web pages anytime, anywhere, from a Web browser interface.
To utilize the OmniEdit service, a user visits the OmniEdit.com Web site,
enters their FTP name, password, and path for any of their own pages. A
text editor window then opens, displaying the HTML code to be edited. After
making any changes, the user just clicks the “Save” button and the page is
updated.
OmniEdit works with any site, and requires no set-up. The service supports
all popular browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator, and the AOL browser on Windows 95/98, NT, Macintosh and Unix.
OmniEdit allows a user to quickly correct a typo, update a headline, price,
and date, or correct broken or changed links, all on the fly, directly from
a Web browser. OmniEdit.com doesn’t require any FTP applications and
there’s no need to download the source file from the Web, or start an HTML
editor, etc. Just visit the OmniEdit site and start editing.
OmniEdit was designed to eliminate the time often wasted on
“round-tripping” web files back and forth to a Web server.
OmniEdit’s security is consistant with the security of a user’s current FTP
client, and is more like a transparent FTP client embedded in a Web page.
Like traditional FTP clients, a name and a password are required for
read/write access to Web pages, and no details are stored either on the
browser or on the OmniEdit Web site.