Claris Home Page was one of the earliest true what-you-see-is-what-you-get

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

 HTML editor

HTML editor

An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality. For example, many HTML editors work not only with HTML, but also with related...

s. The project was code-named Loma Prieta. Claris purchased it from San Andreas Systems, reworked it to use their corporate user interface

User interface

The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...

, and released it in 1996.

History

Home Page supported all of the features common in HTML at the time. The program did not include any sort of template system however, nor a system for creating menus or rollovers. It also suffered from a number of bugs and display glitches, which Claris never fixed, although version 2 was released in 1997. It improved the table editor and included a clip art library of several thousand GIFs. In January 1998 the third and last revision of Home Page was released. This version contained templates and tools for building database-driven websites using FileMaker Pro 4.1 and Claris Dynamic Markup Language (CDML).

Within weeks of the final Home Page release, parent company Apple Computer

Apple Computer

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 reorganized Claris

Claris

Claris was a computer software developer formed as a spin-off from Apple Computer in 1987. It was given the source code and copyrights to several programs that were owned by Apple, notably MacWrite and MacPaint, in order to separate Apple's application software activities from its hardware and...

 into FileMaker Inc.

FileMaker Inc.

FileMaker Inc. is a computer software company formed in 1998 from the vestiges of Claris as a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Inc.FileMaker develops, supports and markets two relational database programs; FileMaker and Bento. FileMaker is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating...

 with Home Page and the FileMaker

FileMaker

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc., formerly Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms...

database as its only remaining products. Home Page was finally discontinued in 2001.