UserLand Software Inc. took its scripting application into new territory this May with the release of Version 4.0 of Frontier.
The free Apple-events scripting software has been tuned for the Internet and includes Web-site-administration and -automation features.
The company said Version 4.0 includes HTML text handling, allowing users to write HTML in Frontier and upload it to a Web site. The update lets users manage URLs (uniform resource locators) via glossaries. Users can place text in double quotes, and when the double-quoted text is run through the URL glossaries, Frontier will automatically link the text to an assigned URL.
Version 4.0 includes templates for Web pages and lets users include scripts in their HTML text. The software runs native on Power Macs, and UserLand said this version is up to 46 times faster than AppleScript.
A version of Frontier due this summer will be able to run AppleScript CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts multithreaded and unmodified, UserLand said. Frontier can run scripts from any Open Scripting Architecture language.
UserLand Software Inc. can be reached at http://www.scripting.com/frontier/.
