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I remember hearing about FrontPage Extensions back in the day. I never had an opportunity to make use of them since I used Dreamweaver at the time, but what exa
by Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
I remember hearing about FrontPage Extensions back in the day. I never had an opportunity to make use of them since I used Dreamweaver at the time, but what exactly were they? I tried googling, but couldn’t find a plain language explanation, only opaque marketing speak.
- bryans 5y agoExtensions were a way of connecting the FrontPage editor directly to an IIS server, which provided publishing functionality (i.e. uploads) and basic server management. Ultimately, they were just a bunch of server scripts that responded to commands from the client over an FTP-like connection.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoI see, so basically a static site deployment platform using today’s buzzwords.