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last edited by BillSeitz on Jul 1, 2008 7:29 pm

Frontier is the core technology of Userland, built by . http://frontier.userland.com/

Frontier started out as a scripting environment for the . It could be used to automate -level activities (moving files around, etc.), and could send [Apple Event]-s to other applications. It was used a fair amount by people in publishing to push text files into page layout apps, process images for layout, etc.

It was beaten in the marketplace by [Apple Script], which was free and pushed by Apple.

It then became a web scripting environment. I used it at Medscape when we started out running our web servers on Macs. I loved it.

Its focus shifted to web content management, and it became .

Then, a client version was developed for a variety of purposes. It was initially called Pike, then became .

It's always had a strong flavor. Scripts are written as outlines (not unlike , though Frontier has always had a more explicit outlining-style interface with everything). There has always been an integrated objectbase (I'm not sure it warrants the more formal label of ) to store the base framework, custom scripts, and data (not unlike ).

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