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Karelia Software previews Sandvox
Many of you may remember (and indeed still use, as I do) a great application from Karelia Software called Watson. Originally released in 2001, Watson was a "web services" application, allowing you to view info from the web without having to use a browser via a series of "services." Ebay auctions, package tracking, local weather and television schedules, monetary exchange rates and more were available. I loved it and registered it just a day after trying it out. Like I said, I still use it.When Apple released Mac OS 10.2 "Jaguar," in August of 2002, it included a revamped version of Sherlock, which looked and behaved a lot like Watson. To make a long story (and old argument) short, Watson was licensed by Sun Microsystems in 2004, and Karelia has since stopped supporting the application. I only mention this story because Watson is such a pleasure to use, I was thrilled to see that the boys at Karelia have a new project up on the work bench.
Previewed at WWDC this week, Sandvox is a WYSIWYG web development tool that promises to combine incredible ease of use with an intuitive interface and beautiful, professionally designed templates. Features you'd expect are in place, like drag-and-drop assembly and rich text editing, along with some geekier goodies like automatic RSS generation, the option to code by hand and an extensible plug-in architecture. Sounds interesting to me, and Karelia is currently looking for eager beta testers to give them a hand when the time rolls around. I signed up, and if I end up loving Sandvox half as much as I love Watson, this will be one sweet little app.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
chloe said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
are you sure there aren't any girls working at Karelia? ;)
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Dave Caolo said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
Chloe: I use "boys" as a gender neutral pronoun. You see, I. . . . aw, heck. Who am I kidding? I should have said "folks." I regret the oversight.
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Oliver said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
This looks very interesting. Looks like it could be the WYSIWYG editor I've been waiting for apple to make.
I'm going to see if i can sign up too.
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Tony Barnhill said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
I'm Macromedia Certified Dreamweaver MX 2004 Developer and I signned up for beta test also. It sounds very interesting!
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Jay Contonio said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
And I as well...I hope the hand coding aspect of it is nice because I don't like the wysiwyg editors...I just want something a little cooler than BBEdit, with built in php references, syntax checking, auto tag-complete...preferably from panic or companies like them.
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Gareth said 3:47PM on 9-03-2005
This is so awesome!
I think Rapidweavers time may just be up! ;)
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