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Sandvox public beta available
A few years ago,
Karelia software released the great Watson, an internet search utility for
Mac OS X. Many loved it, and I still use it all the time, in fact. Shortly after that successful release, Apple produced
a version of its own Sherlock that bore a strikingly uncanny resemblance to Watson. Eventually, Karelia discontinued
development of Watson and sold the technology to Sun Microsystems.More recently, Karelia has begun work on a WYSIWYG web editor for the Mac called Sandvox, and limited beta testing was begun in October. It really looks great and we've been watching its development for a while now. Today, however, the folks at Karelia are getting that sinking feeling all over again.
With the rumor swirling that Steve will introduce a new application called "iWeb" at tomorrow's keynote, Karelia have made the public beta of Sandvox available today, a little earlier than they had initially planned. I've only played with it very briefly so far, but some of the templates really look great. Good luck to Karelia.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
xSmurf said 12:54PM on 1-09-2006
I'm usually very septical to WYSIWYG, but I decided to see what Sandvox was made of. I have to say I am impressed. It generated xhtml 1.0 strict code, which is a first in the WYSIWYG world. It looked simple to use. The default designs are very nice! But... I wouldn't call this a true WYSIWYG. You are very limited in what you can do to the page. There's not even a way to view the page source! To top it off the app phones home.
Overall I'd say it's a nice little app for web newbies. Pretty much as easy to use as .Mac, but has a bit more flexibility. Yet we're far from a real wysiwyg. Oh don't get me wrong, I love BBEdit! But sometimes I wish GoLive would generate decent code.
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j.Stone said 2:00PM on 1-09-2006
How did you get it to install? My copy won't open with installer. Keep getting the "disk not reconized" message when trying to open installed disk? Am I missing something here?
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craigv said 3:15PM on 1-09-2006
I'm not able to get the disk image to mount either. I emailed support early this morning and am waiting to hear back. I'll check back in if I am able to get it installed.
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dalton said 3:29PM on 1-09-2006
The DMG file opens just fine for me. Looks to be a nice little app - will be very useful to me if it's not too expensive when it goes gold.
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Nathan said 3:32PM on 1-09-2006
Karelia seem to be having problems with their website. I downloaded the image and it only got to 4ish MB in stead of 14. After a couple of goes it got to 14MB and could mount it.
I've tried it for 1/2 hour, but from my initial view, I much prefer RapidWeaver.
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Scoo said 4:40PM on 1-09-2006
Xtralean's terrific Shutterbug is a small web site app worth looking in to as well. It outputs standards compliant CSS based layouts that you can tweak visually to your heart's content, without having to hack CSS files by hand. Web site look EXACTLY the same in the preview, Mac and Windows browsers, it's the first real WYSIWYG web app I've ever come across. A few GUI quirks, but this app is a diamond in the rough.
http://www.xtralean.com
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J.Stone said 5:02PM on 1-09-2006
Well after finally getting it to install, it worked the first time. It had me enthused, didn't last long. Afterwards every attempt to open just crashed the program. After several more tries it does nothing but crash upon opening. I am working on a G5 dual 2.7, with 4gs ram so I doubt my system is the problem with this one.
Shame, it looked like it had some potential.
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SubGenius said 6:25PM on 1-09-2006
OUCH!
First Watson, now Sandvox.
That's gotta hurt.
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AlMeister said 7:42AM on 1-16-2006
10.4 only?? Very bad design decision.
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