HoTMetaL
Developer(s) | SoftQuad Software |
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Stable release | 6.0
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Type | HTML editor |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
HoTMetaL is an early commercial HTML-authoring software program, released in 1994 by SoftQuad Software of Toronto, Canada.
Based on the
HoTMetaL went through several incarnations from versions 1 though 6. The Macintosh version survived until at least version 3.[3] Eventually, the product line was discontinued as an HTML editor, although the user interface lives on in XMetaL, a commercial XML editor.
The editor had several views (including text and WYSIWYG), most notably the "Tags-On" view. This provided a WYSIWYG-like view of the page being edited with overlay icons showing where the code tags started and ended. This view is still used in the XML editing module of Adobe InDesign.
On 15 March 2002, the
During the development of
The name
The capital letters in HoTMetaL spell HTML. The term comes from hot metal typesetting which involves melting alloys into the shape of letters so they can be used by Linotype machines to print words on paper.
References
- ^ "HotMetal Pro 6.0". System Requirements. Amazon. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
- ^ "Getting Warmer: HoTMetaL PRO 2.0". TidBITS. 12 February 1996. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ "HTMLbits From the Expo". TidBITS. 12 August 1996. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ "Welcome to hotmetalpro.com (Internet Archive)". Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ^ therealmccrea (2014-11-19). "The Big Pitch to TJ and the Exec Team". The Real McCrea. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ therealmccrea (2014-12-26). "The Untold (and Rather Improbable) Story Behind the First Real HTML Editor". The Real McCrea. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
External links
- "HoTMetaL PRO Version 3 Manual, MIT". Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
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