FW: New Web Authoring Tool

[Ernest Perez]

Here's a message about and original text referring to Akimbo Systems' new 
Globetrotter product, supposedly the "third generation" of WWW authoring products. 
Oregon State Printer Mike Freese put this msg out on our SEPUG (State Electronic 
Publishing Users Group) list.   There's already been a predictable exchange on that 
list between "raw HTML" purists and the "I don't really care how it works if it 
works" faction.

Should be of interest to Web4Lib subscribers.

> ________________________________________________________
> From: FREESE Michael on Mon, Aug 5, 1996 11:58 AM
> Subject: New Web Authoring Tool
> To: PEREZ Ernest R
> 
> Here's a product that could be to web publishing what tools like
> PageMaker and
> Quark are to traditional publishing. If it lives up to its hype, it
> should
> empower designers and publishers to develop extremely sophisticated web
> sites
> without having to know the underlying languages and protocols. We plan
> to have
> our graphic designers try it out.
> 
> -------------------------
> <globetrotter at akimbo.com>
> 
> On July 15th 1996, Akimbo Systems announced Globetrotter Web Publisher,
> 
> the first third-generation web publishing product, scheduled to ship
> this
> quarter.
> 
> Globetrotter is a unique product in an exciting market area. Unlike all
> 
> existing products for authoring content on the world wide web,
> Globetrotter is a web site publishing product. In contrast, the second
> generation consists of HTML editors such as PageMill, FrontPage, Claris
> 
> Home Page, Navigator Gold, etc.; the first generation consists of text
> editors such as vi, emacs, BRIEF and BBEdit.
> 
> A true publishing product, Globetrotter is aimed at the large segment
> of
> the market that wants to publish on the web but doesn't want to (and
> shouldn't need to) understand HTML. Globetrotter stands in contrast to
> first- and second-generation products, all of which require users to
> understand the details of HTML. The second-generation products make it
> so
> you don't have to type HTML, but you still have to understand it. From
> our point of view, this is like requiring a word processor user to
> understand PostScript. The second-generation products are
> architecturally
> limited by HTML. In comparison, Globetrotter is designed around a
> feature
> set that makes sense for publishing web sites and it is this feature
> set
> that is then mapped to HTML as appropriate. The numerous HTML Editors
> being rushed to market today help users with the relatively simple task
> 
> of creating HTML tags; Globetrotter is designed to help with the
> complex
> task of creating web sites.
> 
> More information is at: <http://www.akimbo.com/globetrotter> The full
> press release of July 15th is at:
> <http://www.akimbo.com/press_releases/press_release_07_15_96.html>
> 
> There is a form on the web site that you can fill out to receive
> information when we ship.
> 
> --
> 
> Mike Freese
> freesem at fcmail.state.or.us
> http://www.open.org/freesem
> (503) 378-3397 Ext. 224
> FAX (503) 373-7789
> 
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