NetObjects Fusion

NetObjects Fusion

NetObjects Fusion 2013
Developer(s)	NetObjects, Inc.
Stable release	2013 / April 29, 2013
Operating system	Microsoft Windows (all versions) Mac OS (versions 1–3)
Type	Web design
License	Proprietary
Website	NetObjects

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.

NetObjects Fusion has a graphical user interface and generates HTML or (since release 11) XHTML through its own proprietary database.

The origin of NetObjects Fusion reaches back to the 1980s. 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.

Development was transferred to the new-founded company Rae Technology, a spin-off from Apple Computer. 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.

NetObjects, Inc. was founded in 1995 with an initial investment by Rae Technology to complete development of NetObjects Fusion.

Clement Mok, Victor Zaud and Susan Kare, interactivity designers, were contracted to accomplish the development of NetObjects Fusion and to design its interface.

Hopes at the new founded company were high and reactions of market and IT observers to the first two releases of NetObjects Fusion in 1996 and 1997 very positive. Among other awards NetObjects Fusion received were InfoWorld's Analyst Choice award and PC Magazine(('))s Editors' Choice.