Adobe PageMill

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PageMill (1995-2000) was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor for the World Wide Web.

Adobe Systems released PageMill 1.0 in late 1995. It was considered revolutionary at the time as it was the first HTML editor which was considered user friendly, cited as the "PageMaker of the WWW" [1]. This first version, however, was also criticized for lacking items such as a spell-checker and support for creating HTML tables [2].

Adobe PageMill 2.0, which was introduced in early 1997, corrected these issues by offering a package which, according to one review, "adds more features than I have fingers and toes...PageMill with its tables, frames, graphics, and support for form interfaces, makes it easy to lay out a page" [3].

Adobe PageMill 3.0 (which was released in early 1999) was discontinued in February, 2000 due to the development and promotion of Adobe GoLive [4].

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A major competitor to PageMill 2.0 was the popular HTML editor Macromedia Dreamweaver, first released in 1997. Adobe Systems bought Macromedia in 2005 and thus now owns Macromedia Dreamweaver.