ANNC: Interaction 4 for WebTen

Interaction 4 is now officially released and can be downloaded from:

   http://interaction.in-progress.com

Interaction 4 is a powerful web application server for Macintosh that
generates standard HTML and WAP pages from server-side XML, XHTML, XSL and
CSS2. Legacy HTML documents can be used as is or enhanced with XML
constructs, facilitating a smooth transition from HTML to Extensible HTML
and XML.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a standard from the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) used to build templates and transformations for the layout
of web pages. Cascading Stylesheets Level 2 (CSS2) is a W3C standard for
designing the presentation style of a web page. XML is W3C standard markup
language used in Interaction to describe the semantic structure of content.

Interaction is extended using optional components. The new release includes
revised versions of the complementary Forum and Chat services, with support
for themes to design of the appearance of web message boards and chat
rooms. A theme is a set of XSL stylesheets or HTML templates that controls
the layout and style of the pages of a service.

A new FastCGI Adapter provides an alternative to ACGI for connecting
Interaction to WebTen and web servers on various platforms. FastCGI is an
open communication protocol that offers high performance without the
limitations of server-specific APIs.

Shipping since 1995, Interaction provides a mature, reasonably priced and
easy to use Mac alternative to expensive site management and dynamic
publishing systems. The application uses server-side XML and XSL to
maintain a strict separation between content, processing and presentation,
making websites more flexible, facilitating reuse and allowing a
centralized consistent design of the look & feel of the pages.


-- Terje <terje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Media Design in*Progress
   Software for Mac Web Professionals at <http://www.in-progress.com>
   Take Advantage of Server Side XML and XSL with Interaction 4.0!