Claris Homepage

Claris Home Page

Stable release	3.0 / January 1998
Development status	Discontinued
Operating system	Mac OS, Windows
Type	WYSIWYG HTML editor

Claris Home Page (computer software) was one of the earliest true what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editors. The project was code-named Loma Prieta. Claris purchased it from San Andreas Systems, reworked it to use their corporate user interface, and released it in 1996.

History

Home Page supported all of the features common in HTML at the time. The program did not include any sort of template system however, nor a system for creating menus or rollovers. It also suffered from a number of bugs and display glitches, which Claris never fixed, although version 2 was released in 1997. It improved the table editor and included a clip art library of several thousand GIFs. In January 1998 the third and last revision of Home Page was released. This version contained templates and tools for building database-driven websites using FileMaker Pro 4.1 and Claris Dynamic Markup Language (CDML).

Within weeks of the final Home Page release, parent company Apple Computer reorganized Claris into FileMaker Inc. with Home Page and the FileMaker database as its only remaining products. Home Page was finally discontinued in 2001.