Freeway 3.0

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What is Freeway 3.0?

This is version 3.0 of Freeway, the utterly abandoned early WYSIWYG web design application for the Macintosh. I recall it was apparently popular with users of QuarkXPress as their UIs shared some similarities. It was marketed as an accessible 'way in' to the then burgeoning Web design world. 


SoftPress has updated Freeway, its Web page design program, with a faster rendering engine, a multilingual Web page, and better JavaScript support. Though priced $40 below its main competitors. Freeway 3’s continued inability to view or edit HTML code makes for a lackluster upgrade.

Freeway provides advanced typographic controls and overlapping elements for con- siderable control over a page’s appearance. Those familiar with desktop publishing-style interfaces will get up and running quickly. The program’s ability to compose pages in HTML versions 3.2 and 4.0 is crucial for compatibility with older browsers. Plus, Freeway can convert TIFF, Illustrator, and other graphics files into Web-friendly GIF or JPEG formats.

Still, Freeway remains WYSIWYG only. You can’t see a page’s underlying HTML code. This constraint presents a severe problem in designing, for example, feedback forms, which require direct code manipulation. Converting HTML files from other applications like Adobe GoLive is roundabout. Freeway forces you to create a new file, import the (unseen) HTML from another file via a menu command, and then clean up any formatting differences. Also, the program does not use contextual menus.

There is no pressing need to switch to Freeway unless you really need backward compatibility and automatic graphics formatting. Users who bought Freeway 2.0 after February 1, 2000, are eligible for a free upgrade; some older users will need the new features, but the rest may just want to wait. 

Shuchat-Marx, Mark D. (September 2000). Freeway 3.0. MacAddict. (pg. 70).


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Architecture


IBM PowerPC



System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.1





Compatibility notes


Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver





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