Company type | Public |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 1984Toronto | in
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Defunct | 2001 |
Fate | Acquired by Just Systems |
Products | HoTMetaL |
SoftQuad Software, Ltd., was a Canadian software company best known for HoTMetaL,[1] the first commercial HTML editor.[2][3][4] It is also known for Author/Editor, the first specialized SGML editor,[5] and Panorama, the first browser plugin for SGML.[6] Panorama demonstrated the need for standardization of SGML on the web,[2] which eventually resulted in the development of the XML specification.[7]
HoTMetaL was one of a series of applications created by SoftQuad for editing, viewing and publishing structured (SGML and XML) content. It was based upon a popular SGML Editor called Author/Editor and has since evolved into XMetaL.
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