Editing Cyberdog (section)

== Overview ==
Cyberdog included [[email]] and [[newsgroup|news]] readers, a [[web browser]] and [[address book]] management components, as well as [[drag and drop]] [[file transfer protocol|FTP]]. [[OpenDoc]] allowed these components to be reused and embedded in other documents by the user. For instance, a "live" Cyberdog web page could be embedded in a presentation program, one of the common demonstrations of OpenDoc.

A serious problem with the OpenDoc project that Cyberdog depended on, was that it was part of a very acrimonious competition between OpenDoc consortium members and Microsoft. The members of the OpenDoc alliance were all trying to obtain traction in a market rapidly being dominated by Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. At the same time, Microsoft used the synergy between the OS and applications divisions of the company to make it effectively mandatory that developers adopt the competing Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology. OpenDoc was forced to create an interoperability layer in order to allow developers to use it, and this added a great technical burden to the project.

An offspring of Cyberdog called Subwoofer had been developed in parallel and was aimed at providing software developers with a simple library for integrating web communication protocols into applications. The project was completed after the cancellation of Cyberdog and released at the [[MacHack]] 1997 conference by [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sari-harrison/1/16a/280 Sari Harrison] and [[Frédéric Artru]]. Subwoofer evolved into the URL Access library shipped with Mac OS 8.6.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://db.tidbits.com/article/5396?print_version=1|title = Putting URL Access Scripting to Work|date = 17 May 1999}}</ref>