The software was targeted at users who have a traditional print design, authoring or journalistic background. User actions on pages get written into a proprietary database, which generates HTML code. The user has pixel-level control over a WYSIWYG page layout. NOF comes with a graphical user interface similar to desktop publishing applications like Pagemaker or InDesign. NetObjects Fusion is not an HTML editor but an HTML generator. English and German are the only languages in which NOF is currently distributed. NetObjects Fusion reached the biggest resonance in Germany, reaching nearly two-thirds of the market by the end of the 1990s. Revenue from software sales was $2.44 million in 2007 (no new version of NetObjects Fusion was released), down from $3.58 million in 2006 and $3.86 million in 2005. In the last few years, sales showed a slight downward tendency, staying flat in 2008 with a revenue of $2.5 million. Among other awards NetObjects Fusion received were InfoWorld 's Analyst Choice Award and PC Magazine's Editors' Choice.Īfter a few years of great success, NOF fell back in market share and reputation against the competition, mainly Dreamweaver, though it always kept a dedicated user community. The hopes of the newly founded company were high, and the reactions of the market and IT observers to the first two releases of NetObjects Fusion in 19 were very positive. was founded in 1995 with an initial investment by Rae Technology to complete the development of NetObjects Fusion.Ĭlement Mok, Victor Zaud, Karen Rall, and Susan Kare, interactivity designers, were contracted to accomplish the development of NetObjects Fusion and design its interface. At Rae, the two Arora brothers and David Kleinberg developed an object-oriented environment called SOLO (Structure of Linked Objects), which is the technological basis of NetObjects Fusion. At Apple Computer, Samir Arora, David Kleinberg, and Sal Arora did research in early information navigation applications-before the term " browser" was born and Mosaic was invented.ĭevelopment was transferred to the new-founded company Rae Technology, a spin-off from Apple Computer. The origins of NetObjects Fusion date back to the 1980s. NetObjects Fusion has a graphical user interface and generates HTML or (since release 11) XHTML through its own proprietary database. NetObjects Fusion (NOF) is a web design tool, from 1996 to 2001 developed and distributed by NetObjects, Inc., marketed from 2001 until 2009 by Web.com (former called Website Pros), which acquired the application in 2001, and from July 2009 on distributed again by the re-established NetObjects, Inc. Microsoft Windows (all versions, though some users have reported problems using it with Windows 10 )
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