HotMetaL Application Server is where things could begin to heat up.
"...ISPs can use HoTMetaL Application Server to add value and retain long-term customers with applications such as commerce, on-line catalogs, category-based searches, data validation forms, message forums and more. HoTMetaL Application Server's open system architecture fully supports common industry standards and delivers applications that are 100-percent browser independent...''The HoTMetaL Application Server, bundled with the HoTMetaL Power Pack, is the ultimate Web application building tool,'' said Roberto Drassinower, general manager, SoftQuad. ''Best of all, its familiar HTML syntax enables Web developers to begin creating applications instantly, without having to endure a steep learning curve.''
Web developers who wish to start creating active Web sites, which include customer service, commerce, premium- and personalized-content applications directly from their desktops, can download the HoTMetaL Power Pack today from www.softquad.com.
HoTMetaL Application Server empowers Web authors to create Web applications that make their sites more dynamic, interactive and functional. HoTMetaL Application Server uses HTML-like syntax and therefore offers HTML programmers a familiar interface. Developers can easily view and edit the code, which appears as additional tags in HTML documents.
Applications can be built without leaving the familiar HTML-authoring environment, and without having to learn complicated scripting languages, such as Javascript or Visual Basic.
HoTMetaL Application Server also uses an XML-based syntax, which makes it the first standards-based extension of HTML for developing distributed Web applications. Applications built with HoTMetaL Application Server can extract data from databases and XML or HTML pages from across the Web and deliver that data back to the user's desktop..."
[excerpted from both news releases]
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It will be interesting to see what Bill Machrone, Ziff-Davis, [et al] has to say now about HoTMetaL... |
