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[[File:HotSauce navigation interface.jpg|thumb|HotSauce navigation interface]]
'''HotSauce''' (code-named '''Project X''') was experimental software developed by [[Apple Computer]] as a sample application of its [[Meta Content Framework]]. HotSauce generated a [[3D computer graphics|3D]] [[visualization (graphic)|visualization]] of the contents of an MCF file, for example, a [[website]] sitemap. It could also be used to navigate the contents of the user's hard drive.

The interface presented the different nodes as "bubbles" floating in space, to which users could "fly" to, in an effect similar to the one found later in Apple's [[Time Machine (macOS)|Time Machine]] backup software. 

Apple offered [[development stage|beta]] versions of HotSauce as a [[web browser]] [[Plug-in (computing)|plug-in]] for the [[classic Mac OS]] and [[Microsoft Windows]] and a stand-alone application.

HotSauce was never released in a final version and while MCF was adopted by thousands of websites, including [[Yahoo!]],<ref>{{citation |title=Apple's "Meta Content Format" Is Catching On|last=Liberatore|first=Karen|publisher=Macworld}}, available at [https://urbigenous.net/library/MCF/macworld_online.html Urbigenous]</ref> most users saw no point in navigating them in a 3D space. The project was discontinued along with MCF shortly after [[Steve Jobs]]' return to the company in 1997.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://downlode.org/Etext/MCF/ The Meta-Content Format/Framework]&nbsp;– HotSauce and MCF nostalgia site, with articles and the original HotSauce software available for download.
*[http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Oct05.RSS.html A Brief History of Data Syndication and Podcasting]

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