Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: AOLserver/AOLpress

Author:David Valentine
Posted:11/24/1998; 11:26:21 AM
Topic:AOL Acquires Netscape
Msg #:467 (In response to 459)
Prev/Next:466 / 468

Funny thing about the Navi/GNN/AOLserver/AOlpress combo, it is still cutting edge. It was well designed, but it just was never understood. Well ahead of it's time. AOLpress could not keep up with the IE/Navigator featuritis 1) Transparent Web page Editing: the server is the filesystem. No composer. Used POST/PUT to create web pages, with aliases to BROWSE directories using GET, and kept a site overview. 2) Site overview/Link updating: rename a page, links to that page update on all pages on the site (if you let it).

3) multithreaded 4) server side scripting: highly configurable 5) database integrated

The problem was AOLpress was a bit slow, and clunky, and web servers/page editing tools never adopted the net is the file system additude.

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