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Friday 1/30/98Frontier 5.0 is shipping!The final version of Frontier 5.0 for Mac and Windows is now available. The full release is on the Download Page. If you've been using Frontier 5.0b8 or greater, you can upgrade instead. Frontier 5.0 Change Notes lists all the changes in the Frontier application since Frontier 4.2.3. If you're migrating from 4.2.3, this page is a good place to start learning about what's new. For Frontier 4 users who are moving to Frontier 5, bookmark Migrating from Frontier 4. That's where we list pages that describe the changes from Frontier 4.2.3 to 5.0 and suggest strategies for upgrading. Pages so far:
Website Management Transition More on the way... Thursday 1/29/98New release: Frontier 5.0fc2.The full release is on the Download Page. The upgrader release of Frontier 5.0fc2 is available on the Upgrade page. If you've been running the 5.0b8 root or greater you can use this upgrader, otherwise see the Download Page to download the full version of Frontier 5.0fc2. Read the Frontier 5.0fc2 Change Notes. Wednesday 1/28/98New release: Frontier 5.0fc1. This is the final candidate release of Frontier 5.The full release is available right now on the Download Page. We've pushed back the ship date until January 30, to allow fc1 some testing before shipping the final version. Read the announcement. Read the Frontier 5.0fc1 Change Notes. If you have bugs to report in Frontier 5.0fc1, the best place to report them is on the Frontier-Work list. Other Frontier lists are okay, too. If you're not on any of the lists, but have a bug report, send email to brent@scripting.com. UserLand hosts a number of Frontier mailing lists: see the lists website to choose one that's best for you. Tuesday 1/27/98The Web Tutorial has been revised. This current version will ship with Frontier 5.You can download the web tutorial now for off-line reading:
http://www.scripting.com/downloads/webTutorial5.zip App-only release of Frontier 5.0b17 for Windows and Macintosh on the FastTrack site. Monday 1/26/98For experienced users: app-only release of Frontier 5.0b16 for Windows and Macintosh on the FastTrack site.Windows NT users: see Installing the Psapi.dll. You'll need this DLL for certain Frontier verbs to work. For Windows Active Desktop users: Frontier and the Active Desktop details a change you can make in your Internet Explorer preferences to work better with Frontier. For Mac users: UserLand Utilities are extra utility apps that will ship with Frontier 5. You can download them now. Seth Dillingham's Verbalist Suite 1.1 creates an outline of Frontier 5 verbs. Sunday 1/25/98For cutting-edge types: major new root update. See the FastTrack site.Saturday 1/24/98App-only release of Frontier 5.0b14 for Windows and Macintosh on the FastTrack site.Friday 1/23/98Windows and Mac app only-release of Frontier 5.0b12 on the FastTrack site.Frontier is an Outliner. We've started a new Outliners mailing list. Tip: if you're using a Windows laptop without a numeric keypad, you can use the F2 key in place of the keypad Enter key. Thursday 1/22/98For experienced users: new app-only release of Frontier 5.0b11 for Mac and Windows on the FastTrack site.Wednesday 1/21/98Windows and Mac app only-release of Frontier 5.0b10 on the FastTrack site.Frontier developers Alan German and Preston Holmes have released cross-platform Frontier 5 versions of, respectively, tcpcmd and NetFrontier. John Delacour: Verbi gives scripters fast access to verb info in UserLand's Frontier 5 Verbs website. Tuesday 1/20/98For experienced users: new app-only release of Frontier 5.0b9 for Mac and Windows on the FastTrack site.Monday 1/19/98For Windows users: if you're using the Active Desktop and MSIE as your web browser, MSIE will work better with Frontier if you change one of your browser's preferences. Go to MSIE's View menu and choose Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab. Expand "Browsing" if it's not open. Check the box next to "Browse in a new process." Click the OK button. This will allow MSIE to recycle windows, rather than opening a new one each time you publish or preview a web page. Requires Frontier 5.0b8 -- see below.New release: The full version of Frontier 5.0b8 has been released! See the Download page. If you're using Frontier 5.0b1 or greater, you can upgrade to Frontier 5.0b8. See the Upgrade page. Read the Frontier 5.0b8 Change Notes. Saturday 1/17/98Major new root updates. Experienced users: see the FastTrack site.Friday 1/16/98App-only releases of Frontier 5.0b8 for Windows and Macintosh on the FastTrack site.Thursday 1/15/98New app-only release of Frontier 5.0b7 on the FastTrack site.The What is Frontier? page has been updated. Seth Dillingham: Relative JavaScript Images Wednesday 1/14/98For experienced users: new Mac and Windows app-only releases of Frontier 5.0b6 are on the FastTrack site.Remote procedure calls with Frontier and XML. The Association of Database Developers site is built with Frontier 5. Tuesday 1/13/98If you've found any bugs with Leonard Rosenthol's OSA Menu 1.1, try OSA Menu 1.1.1b1 Send bug reports to leonardr@lazerware.com.Monday 1/12/98Learn how to extend Frontier: Writing DLLs for Frontier for Windows.Sunday 1/11/98More progress on the Frontier 5 Verbs site. Bug reports and design suggestions go to the Frontier-Work list or to wesley@scripting.com, cc'd to brent@scripting.com.Are you a Frontier webmaster who wants to show off your site? Would you like your site to be featured in the Galleria? Send email with your site's URL to thea@scripting.com. Experienced users: get the latest root update. We start today with #124. Lots and lots of bug fixes! If you're running the Frontier for Windows 5.0b5 app, check out the StripHtml DLL for Frontier. If you don't have the 5.0b5 app, get it from the FastTrack site. Saturday 1/10/98Phil Suh's Yahoo Paths macro updated for Frontier 5.Friday 1/9/98For experienced users: Frontier 5.0b5 Windows app-only release is on the FastTrack site.A page has been turned: the number of remaining root bugs is rapidly shrinking. If you're using Frontier 5.0b1, please check out the Root Updates page -- now at #109 -- and report new and remaining bugs on the Frontier-Work list. Thursday 1/8/98Frontier 5 Verbs: a work-in-progress, but ready for review. Please send comments to Wesley Felter, wesley@scripting.com, cc'd to brent@scripting.com.Report any bugs in Frontier verbs to the Frontier-Work list. Updating Mac-specific docs for Frontier 5. There are two pages so far, with more coming quickly: Please review and send comments to brent@scripting.com. Wednesday 1/7/98Screen shot of Frontier 5.0b1 for Windows, with its new grayscale look.CGI scripting and tcp documentation: Tuesday 1/6/98Frontier 5.0b4/Windows app-only release on the FastTrack site. Two new tcp verbs for getting a client's ip address and port number.Monday 1/5/98For experienced users: an app-only release of Frontier 5.0b3 for Windows that fixes some tcp bugs, and new root updates. See the FastTrack site.If you downloaded a Frontier 5.0b1 upgrade without the application in it, I apologize for the error. Last night the app was added to the upgrade packages, so you can upgrade now. Brian Andresen: odb2xml converts any Frontier object into XML. Sunday 1/4/98New release: The full version of Frontier 5.0b1 has been released! See the Download page.If you're using Frontier 5.0a22 or greater, you can upgrade to Frontier 5.0b1. See the Upgrade page. Read the Frontier 5.0b1 Change Notes. The mediaRef macro manages Flash files. Friday 1/2/98Frontier 5.0b1 app-only release.New root updates. Highlights: the imageRef macro gains new power. The new bgImageRef macro handles background images for you. Thursday 1/1/98Happy New Year!Wednesday 12/31/97More root updates. First update of the day includes Mac-specific bug fixes.GifConverter 2.4 is scriptable. It comes with Frontier glue. Tuesday 12/30/97New 5.0a25 app-only release on the FastTrack site. See the app change notes.Big change: the Zoom button has been removed. To zoom a table, double-click in the Value column. For experienced users: new root updates. Monday 12/29/97The new Community page lists Frontier resources made by and for Frontier users.Thea Partridge's Tips on Importing a Site. Seth Dillingham on the pageHeader attribute. Phil Suh's onMouseOver macro. Sunday 12/28/97For experienced users: the Frontier 5.0a24 app-only release is on the FastTrack site.Daniel Berlinger's Frontier site. Friday 12/26/97Windows Grayscale Screen Shots.Philippe Martin's ODB Extractor helps you extract items from a remote root. Thursday 12/25/97
Merry Christmas! Duncan Smeed's Frontier site. Wednesday 12/24/97About the Sysop.Tuesday 12/23/97Philippe Martin wrote a guide to upgrading Frontier 4 websites to Frontier 5.Proposal for adding callback scripts to the CGI Framework. Jim Roepcke's Frontier 5 Requests site is worth revisiting. It also has pointers to other Frontier 5 requests and issues sites. Wesley Felter's DHTML outline renderer. Duncan Smeed: First Frontier 5 and BBEdit site. OSA Menu 1.1 is shipping. Monday 12/15/97Frontier 5 verb list from Macrobyte.Saturday 12/13/97How the Outliner Works.Friday 12/12/97These pages detail new features and changes in Frontier 5:
Thursday 12/11/97XML and Frontier.The New #pageHeader Attribute. Sharing info between Mac and Windows. The scripting tutorial for Frontier 5 users; adapted by Brent Simmons from the Frontier 4 tutorial written by Matt Neuburg. The scripts run equally well on Mac and Windows. Wednesday 12/10/97Public release of Frontier 5.0/Mac.Here are some interesting screen shots that show the differences in appearance of the Mac and Windows versions of Frontier 5. The Download Page is now cross-platform. A milestone! The new Frontier5-Mac List on the Mailing Lists page. Tuesday 12/9/97Minor Docs Changes in 5.0a22/Win.Saturday 12/6/97"First public release of Frontier 5/Win".Friday 12/5/975.0a22 app only release:Philippe Martin wrote a suite that changes calls to toys.xxx verbs to their new 5.0 versions. Thursday 12/4/97Philippe Martin's Frontier 5 page.Tim Funk does it again! The second DLL connects Frontier to environment variables. This may be the key to getting a low-tech way to hook Frontier up to web servers as a Windows CGI application. Julian Melville's Alpha Quirks page. Wednesday 12/3/97Daniel Berlinger's Issues Page.Tuesday 12/2/975.0a21 is available on the Download Page.Tim Funk has version 1.0a2 of his Registry DLL for Frontier 5/Win. Randy Prudhel: "Not to sound like I'm sucking up but since F5.0a20 when we got the new menus, I've fallen in love all over again with Frontier. It seems tight, a real application, it's just coool... I'm truly having fun." Thanks Randy! Testing the ISO-8859 Filter on Windows. Brian Kelly's Outstanding Issues page. Monday 12/1/97Preston Holmes's Outstanding Issues page.Saturday 11/29/97Brent Simmons reviews the 5.0 menus.The first DLL for Frontier 5/Win, from Timothy Funk, it reads and writes from and to the NT Registry. Friday 11/28/97Jim Roepcke starts http://www.roepcke.com/f5requests/. If you have a request for a feature in Frontier 5, send it to Jim at main@roepcke.com. We'll watch this site regularly.Thursday 11/27/975.0a19 for both platforms.Your choice: 5.0a19 for Windows or Mac... This release is most important for Windows users. Two key bugs were fixed, one relating to page rendering, and other relating to threading. Extra bonus, now the zoom box works right! Whew... I don't think this one's a turkey! System requirements Macintosh 68K or PowerPC running System 7.1 or greater. IBM PC-compatible running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or greater. UserLand Frontier 5.0a18 or greater. Happy Thanksgiving! Wednesday 11/26/97New root updating service.Saturday 11/22/97First simultaneous Mac/Windows release!Your choice: 5.0a18 for Mac or Windows... Same root, both versions. It's truly a cross-platform product. Incredible engineering by Doug and Bob!
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