Frontier 6/Win outliner screen shots

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 159

Posted by dave
1999-08-16 19:42:44

I was doing screen shots of Frontier 1.0 today, and while I was in the mood, I shifted over to Windows and took four shots of Frontier 6.0 as an outlining environment.

***Home page

Here’s how I edit the home page of http://www.outliners.com. I do it in an outline of course!

***Template

In Frontier, web pages are rendered thru templates which can contain macros, which are little script bits in {curly braces}. Templates are very structured things, and having an outliner here is a major win.

***Object database

Frontier is built around an object database which is used to store web content and scripts. It’s hierarchic and deeply integrated into the scripting language (it’s its symbol table). And of course we hooked it up to our outliner, so the same commands you use to edit text are used to browse and edit the database.

***Outliner menu

Here’s Frontier’s Outliner menu. Most of the commands would be familiar to a MORE or ThinkTank user. One additional concept is here, outline lines can be comments, meaning when the outline is processed (mostly for scripts) a commented line and all its subheads, are ignored. It’s a programming concept.

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