History

0 readers

10 users here now

an mbin magazine for all things related to history

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web. (social.vivaldi.net)

submitted 8 months ago by jon@social.vivaldi.net to c/history@fedia.io

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web.

The conversion was for multi-file documents, which included links, images, tables, indexes and more. The structure of the original document was preserved, as was a lot of the formatting.

FrameMaker was widely used in the research community at the time. It was a very powerful tool for writing books and longer documents.

https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.htm

#Web #internet #History #software #Research

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net is that FOSS? also, is it still alive? :amazing:

[–] jon@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz

This code has not been updated since I stopped working on it in 1994 and started working on Opera instead.

At the time FLOSS was not even a term. The code was open. You would typically compile it yourself. I believe that if you wanted to use it commercially, you would have had to contact Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt, which I was working for at the time.

[–] qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I see. That's unlucky :(