SoftQuad Software
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1984 in Toronto |
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| Defunct | 2001 |
| Fate | Acquired by Just Systems |
| Products | HoTMetaL |
SoftQuad Software, Ltd., was a Canadian software company best known for HoTMetaL, the first commercial HTML editor. It is also known for Author/Editor, the first specialized SGML editor, and Panorama, the first browser plugin for SGML. Panorama demonstrated the need for standardization of SGML on the web, which eventually resulted in the development of the XML specification.
HoTMetaL was one of a series of applications created by SoftQuad for editing, viewing and publishing structured (SGML and XML) content. It was based upon a popular SGML Editor called Author/Editor and has since evolved into XMetaL.