Adobe Dreamweaver
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 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 under Mac OS X v10.4 |
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| Developed by | Adobe Systems (formerly by Macromedia) |
| Latest release | CS3 (9.0) |
| Preview release | CS4 BETA (10.0) / May 27, 2008 |
| Written in | C++ |
| OS | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Genre | HTML editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Adobe Dreamweaver Homepage |
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application originally created by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005.
Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JavaServer Pages, and PHP.
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[edit] Features
As a WYSIWYG Presto-based editor, Dreamweaver can hide the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites. A professional criticism of this approach is that it produces HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is much larger than they should be, which can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true because the application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts. In addition, some web site developers have criticized Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply with W3C standards, though recent versions have been more compliant. Dreamweaver 8.0 performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project. However, Macromedia has increased the support for CSS and other ways to lay out a page without tables in later versions of the application, with the ability to convert tables to layers and vice versa.
Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in many browsers, provided that they are installed on their computer. It also has some site management tools, such as the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by whatever parameters specified across the entire site, and a templatization feature for creating multiple pages with similar structures. The behaviors panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge.
Dreamweaver can use "Extensions" - small programs, which any web developer can write (usually in HTML and JavaScript). Extensions provide added functionality to the software for whoever wants to download and install them. Dreamweaver is supported by a large community of extension developers who make extensions available (both commercial and free) for most web development tasks from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping carts.
Like other HTML editors, Dreamweaver edits files locally, then uploads all edited files to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV.
[edit] Syntax highlighting
As of version 6, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP)
- ASP.NET
- C#
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- ColdFusion
- EDML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
- Java
- JavaScript
- JavaServer Pages (JSP)
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- Visual Basic (VB)
- Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
It is also possible to add your own language syntax highlighting to its repertoire.
In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.
[edit] Version history
- Dreamweaver 1.0 (Released December 1997)
- Dreamweaver 1.2 (Followed in March 1998)
- Dreamweaver 2.0 (Released December 1998)
- Dreamweaver 3.0 (Released December 1999)
- Dreamweaver UltraDev 1.0 (Released June 2000)
- Dreamweaver 4.0 (Released December 2000)
- Dreamweaver UltraDev 4.0 (Released December 2000)
- Dreamweaver MX (Released May 29, 2002. Version 6.0)
- Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Released September 10, 2003. Version 7.0)
- Dreamweaver 8 (Released September 13, 2005)
- Dreamweaver CS3 (Released April 16, 2007. Version 9.0)
- Dreamweaver CS4 (beta) (released 27 May 2008, version 10.0)
[edit] Internationalization and localization
[edit] Language Availability
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is available in the following languages: Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew (Middle Eastern version), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
Adobe Dreamweaver Middle Eastern language versions available from WinSoft[1].
[edit] Specific Features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
Dreamweaver Middle Eastern versions allow typing Arabic or Hebrew text (written from right to left) within the code view. Whether the text is fully Middle Eastern (written from right to left) or includes both English and Middle Eastern text (written left to right and right to left), it will be displayed properly in the browser.
The Middle Eastern versions are also available for Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe InCopy and for Adobe Creative Suite (Design Standard, Design Premium, Web Premium).
[edit] See also
- List of HTML editors
- Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors
- Macromedia HomeSite
- Web application
- Web design
[edit] Notes
- ^ Adobe Dreamweaver - Develop websites and applications, enhanced features for Central and East European and Middle Eastern Users
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