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Part of that is Frontpage needing a Windows server, and all that entails.

The other part is clients freaking out after Frontpage had a series of dangerous CVEs all in a row.

And then finally every time a part of Frontpage got popular, MS would deprecate the API and replace it with a new one.

Wordpress was in the right place at the right time.



Yeah, getting Frontpage working on a Linux/Apache system and supporting it back then wasn't exactly a treat. Good idea, maybe, but bad implementation.


I think you're mistaken. The use of WebDAV was not a requirement. Frontpage could function in "HTML editor" mode and just write to the filesystem. In that case, any WYSIWYG editor would do but FP was there and available.




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