In January 1998, the third and final version of Home Page was released. Version 3.0 has been around since 1998, and a lot of us have yet. It improved the table editor and included a clip art library of several thousand images in.Ĭlaris Home Page was one of the finest applications ever made for the Mac. It also had a number of bugs and display glitches, which Claris did not fix as late as 1997. However, the program did not include any sort of template system, nor did it have a system for creating menus or roll-over effects, which at the time were experimental features only available in very recent browser versions. History Home Page supported all of the features common in HTML at the time. Purchased it from San Andreas Systems, reworked it to use the common to all their products, and released it in 1996. We can certainly go at length to this discussion elsewhere, since I think it will only hijack this thread if we tried to discuss it at length here.3.0 / January 1998 20 years ago ( 1998-01), Claris Home Page was one of the earliest true, developed from 1994 on. That's why I've returned to BBEdit, since what I code is not changed in any way by the webpage editor. This after having painstakenly finding code that seems to work well in all web browsers. I'd add that for a number of WYSIWYG editors I've tried, all suddenly want to modify code without asking you to when you return to WYSIWYG mode.

Now maybe you can do this with Frontpage or Freeway, but from the examples I've seen of many websites that say 'must use Internet Explorer for Windows' it makes me wonder if this is more an issue of the webmaster not knowing how to use the webpage editor, or a limitation of the webpage editor. and how to make graceful degradation of code. That has not happened yet except for strict guidelines of We'll only see true WYSIWYG web creation once all browsers that all people use follow the same standards. The additional frills given by many of these WYSIWYG webpage creators are fine for people who want just an elementary webpage creation, but they should not be mistaken for true WYSIW You want to want to Get web creation. HTML is a markup language, which modified elements around text. The key to good web page creation lies in understanding that webpage creation is not like word processing.

What may be WYSIWYG on one web browser may break horribly on another.

Unfortunately WYSIWYG web creation is more a myth than reality.

Claris homepage 3.0