>From one Frontier old timer to another - this is the first bit of news
>related to Frontier that has caught my attention for quite a while.

As it did mine.
>
>For a number of years I spent a lot of time stringing Usertalk 'verbs'
>together to make useful little applications on my Mac. I also spent
>plenty of time using Frontier and then Manila to build and manage
>websites - one of my early efforts even ended up as a Manila plugin
>thanks to the work of David Bayly (that would be CommentIt).

Yes, I remember CommentIt. I haven't done much UserTalk development in
the past couple of years but still use Radio as a 'inexpensive' Frontier
environment which I still use to create all my work web pages.
>
>So - although I can no longer claim to be a Frontier developers, as I
>don't do much with it these days - I have a 'soft spot' for it as an
>application, database and scripting environment.

I feel the same way and I wrote about this in my 'FOSSIL' post -
<http://duncan.smeed.org/4342> - a few days ago
>
>I'm hoping that this news marks some renewed interest in what is a
>unique and powerful application.

I hope so too. I'm looking forward to checking out the code ;-)
>
>All the best,

And to you. We should really get together over the summer this year!

Cheers,

Duncan