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They were releasing PageMill version 2 as a public beta, and they brought their A game.

Not much news from the team, but 3.0 was due sometime very, very soon.Īdobe, on the other hand, had some very big news buzzing around the expo. But it made editing standards-compliant websites a lot simpler. This was before CSS, so those styles weren’t actually transferable. Its hot feature was a “Tags-On” view which took a structured document and made it way easier to read. HoTMeTaL was a WYSIWYG editor (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get), and kept things pretty visual. Peel yourself away from the BBEdit demo, and HoTMeTaL was waiting for you next. If you stopped by their booth, you could check out BBEdit 4.0.1, which let you save files directly to your web server. In 1994, the editor released HTMLExtensions that included syntax highlighting, quick browser previews and built-in templates, soon introducing those as core features. BBEdit was a text editor, plain and simple. Bare Bones had been putting out BBEdit since 1992. If you were looking for the largest booth of the bunch, that probably belonged to Bare Bones Software. Taking a walk through Macworld Expo that day was a crash course in the latest editor features and the great debate between text and WYSIWYG. Consequently, Boston’s World Trade Center was packed wall to wall with the latest and greatest HTML editors. In June of 1996, that number jumped to almost 260,000 (for those following along, that’s a 1000% increase).

In June of 1995 there were around 23,000 websites. It wouldn’t be until a year later that Steve Jobs would make his return, and sales were at an all time low.īut it was an excellent time for the web. Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo.