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have browser, will travel

StarNine: WebStar for MacOS X!

There is a WebObjects adaptor for WebStar which makes it possible to use a WebStar server with WebObjects applications.

Seeing as how StarNine was bought by ACI US yesterday, a company that appears to want to compete with WebObjects with their 4D database product, I'm uncertain whether they'll tout that ability of Web*.

Update: From the 4D and WebStar FAQ:

8. Does this mean WebSTAR Server Suite will no longer support FileMaker Pro?
ACI fully recognizes the importance of third party vendor support for the WebSTAR product range and has no current plans to discontinue WebSTAR's compatibility with any products that it presently supports.

Apache comes pre-configured to run WebObjects apps on Mac OS X Server. I'm not sure if WebObjects will come with Mac OS X, but I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it did.

have browser, will travel

Scripting News: "One idea we've been interested in for quite some time is HTML email, so perhaps Firedrop would make a good test case. As you know Manila sends HTML email to subscribers that request it. I know their VCs well, and they know me. From what I've seen it wouldn't take long to build a server app that does what Firedrop does."

Well, I'm not sure exactly what FireDrop does with HTML email from the screenshots, but Conversant's "conversations" (AKA discussion groups) can be configured to act as two-way mailing lists and NNTP newsgroups which can contain HTML.

Here's a great example, on the free-conversant.com support site. A web page, submitted via Netscape Communicator's HTML e-mail client, showing rich text and an aligned image.

True WYSIWYG e-mail to the web. Anyone can use this, even your CEO!