Adobe Dreamweaver

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Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014.1 running on OS X Yosemite
Original author(s) Macromedia
Developer(s) Adobe Systems
Initial release 1997 (1997)[1]
Stable release CC (2015 – 16.0.0.7698) / June 16, 2015 (2015-06-16)
Development status Active
Written in C++
Operating system Windows
OS X
Type HTML editor, programming tool, integrated development environment (IDE)
License Proprietary
Website www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was created by Macromedia in 1997,[1] and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[2]

Adobe Dreamweaver is available for OS X and for Windows.

Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have improved support for Web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.[3]

Features

Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a web design and development application that combines a visual design surface known as Live View and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features such as real-time syntax checking and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in writing code. Combined with an array of site management tools, Dreamweaver lets its users design, code and manage websites as well as mobile content. Dreamweaver is positioned as a versatile web design and development tool that enables visualization of web content while coding.

Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system.

Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:

Support for ASP.NET and JavaServer Pages was dropped since version CS5.[4]

Users can add their own language syntax highlighting. In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.

Internationalization and localization

Language availability

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[5]

Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages

The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features a Middle Eastern version that allows typing Arabic, Persian, Urdu 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.

Version history

Provider Major version Minor update Release date Notes
Macromedia Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 1.0 December 1997 First version. Mac OS only.
1.2 March 1998 First Windows version
Old version, no longer supported: 2.0 2.0 December 1998
Old version, no longer supported: 3.0 3.0 December 1999
UltraDev 1.0 June 2000
Old version, no longer supported: 4.0 4.0 December 2000
UltraDev 4.0 December 2000
Old version, no longer supported: 6.0 MX 29 May 2002
Old version, no longer supported: 7.0 MX 2004 10 September 2003
Old version, no longer supported: 8.0 8.0 13 September 2005 Last Macromedia version. Included with Adobe CS2.3[6]
Adobe Systems Old version, no longer supported: 9.0 CS3 16 April 2007 Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative Suite
Old version, no longer supported: 10.0 CS4 23 September 2008
Older version, yet still supported: 11.0 CS5 12 April 2010
Older version, yet still supported: 11.5 CS5.5 12 April 2011 Supports HTML5.
Older version, yet still supported: 12.0 CS6 21 April 2012 A perpetual license (disk version) and download only (Cloud version) exist with differing menu structure
Older version, yet still supported: 13.0 Creative Cloud 17 June 2013 The perpetual license option is dropped in this version.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Older version, yet still supported: 14.0 CC 2014 18 June 2014 DOM visualization tool, Live View upgrades, CSS Designer upgrades.
Older version, yet still supported: 14.1 6 October 2014 Ability to view and extract design info and images from Photoshop documents (PSDs), new templates, Live View upgrades, and 64-bit architecture.
Current stable version: 16.0 CC 2015 16 June 2015 Responsive design capabilities with visual media query bars, direct integration with the Bootstrap framework, ability to preview and inspect content on mobile devices, and improvements to the code editor.
Legend: Old version Older version, still supported Current version Latest preview version Future release

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Dreamweaver system requirements at the Wayback Machine (archived May 17, 2009). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
  2. ↑ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia" (PDF). Press Releases. Adobe, Inc. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer Center. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  4. ↑ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html
  5. ↑ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
  6. ↑ "New Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Enhances Adobe Creative Suite 2.3". Adobe Systems. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2014. Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver® 8
  7. ↑ Adobe's Subscription-Only CC Release Carries Obvious Upside But Big Risk | Forbes
  8. ↑ Adobe exec: Creative Cloud complainers will love us once they try us (interview), VentureBeat
  9. ↑ Adobe's Move to the Cloud Incites Anger and Other Top Comments, Mashable
  10. ↑ Adobe Creative Cloud: Reactions, responses and reassurance | Macworld UK
  11. ↑ Neil Bennett (15 May 2013) Analysis: The real reason Adobe ditched Creative Suite for Creative Cloud, Retrieved on 2013-07-21, www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
  12. ↑ Adobe’s Creative Cloud Sparks Thunderous Revolt, 25 May 2013, truth-out.org
  13. ↑ Some Artists Give Adobe's Cloud Switch a Critical Review, Fox Business

External links

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