Microsoft FrontPage 98 (v3)

Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor/Cuisinart for Microsoft Windows.

FrontPage was supposed to enable developers to create web pages graphically, without manually messing around with markup code. Really, you would not try to write a Microsoft Word document in binary would you? By the mid 1990s, few word processors still exposed internal formatting codes or markup, and those that did were viewed as relics of the 1970s mainframe/terminal era. So why should HTML documents be any different?

Unfortunately, as Microsoft enhanced the product they made FrontPage documents render incorrectly in browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. The intention was to create browser lock-in. The actual result: FrontPage became a laughing stock, gave WYSIWYG HTML editors a bad name in general, and web developers went back to developing using sticks, stones, VT100 terminals, and Microsoft Notepad.

For the most part, FrontPage was Windows-only. There was a single Macintosh version released in 1998. FrontPage was discontinued after 2003.



Product type
Application Publishing
Vendor
Microsoft
Release date
1998
Minimum CPU
486
Minimum RAM
16MB
Minimum free disk space
36MB
User interface
GUI
Platform
Windows
Download count
30 (17 for release)
  • 8090-3192571

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft FrontPage 98 98 English 420MB 17

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