Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc. It was created by Macromedia in 1997[1] and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[3]
Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 running on macOS Catalina | |
| Developer(s) | Adobe Inc. (2005–present) Macromedia (before 2005) |
|---|---|
| Initial release | December 1997[1] |
| Stable release | 21.3[2] / June 2022 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows 10 version 1703 and above, macOS 10.12 Sierra and above |
| Type | HTML editor, programming tool, integrated development environment (IDE) |
| License | Trialware software as a service |
| Website | adobe |
Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the macOS and Windows operating systems.
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.[4]
Features Edit
Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a web design Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is used to develop and design websites. Dreamweaver includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting, code completion, real-time syntax checking, and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in writing code.
Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system.
Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP).
- C#
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- ColdFusion
- EDML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Visual Basic (VB)
- Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Support for Active Server Pages (ASP) and JavaServer Pages was dropped in version CS5.[5][6]
Users can add their language syntax highlighting. Code completion is available for many of these languages.
Internationalization and Localization Edit
Language availability Edit
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.[7]
Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages Edit
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 Edit
| Legend: | Old version, not maintained | Older version, still maintained | Current stable version |
|---|
| Developer | Major version | Minor update | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macromedia | 1.0 | 1.0 | Dec 1997 | First version. Mac OS only. |
| 1.2 | Mar 1998 | First Windows version | ||
| 2.0 | 2.0 | Dec 1998 | ||
| 3.0 | 3.0 | Dec 1999 | ||
| UltraDev 1.0 | June 2000 | |||
| 4.0 | 4.0 | Dec 2000 | ||
| UltraDev 4.0 | Dec 2000 | |||
| 6.0 | MX | 29 May 2002 | ||
| 7.0 | MX 2004 | 10 Sep 2003 | ||
| 8.0 | 8.0 | 13 Sep 2005 | Last Macromedia version. Included with Adobe CS2.3.[8] | |
| Adobe Systems | 9.0 | CS3 | 16 Apr 2007 | Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative Suite |
| 10.0 | CS4 | 23 Sep 2008 | ||
| 11.0 | CS5 | 12 Apr 2010 | ||
| 11.5 | CS5.5 | 12 Apr 2011 | Supports HTML5. | |
| 12.0 | CS6 | 21 Apr 2012 | A perpetual license (download without ongoing payments) version and a cloud (subscription) version exist with differing menu structure. | |
| 13.0 | Creative Cloud | 17 June 2013 | The perpetual license option is dropped in this version.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] | |
| 14.0 | CC 2014 | 18 June 2014 | DOM visualization tool, Live View upgrades, CSS Designer upgrades. | |
| 15.0 | CC 2014.1 | 6 Oct 2014 | Ability to view and extract design info and images from Photoshop documents (PSDs), new templates, Live View upgrades, and 64-bit architecture. | |
| 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. | |
| 17.0 | CC 2017 | 2 Nov 2016 | - Redesigned code editor, e-processor support, real-time preview in browser, quick editing of related code files, changes to UI | |
| 18.0 | CC 2018 | 19 Oct 2017 | Adobe release notes - URL Test Button, Save Credentials, Search Bar support, Conflict icon is now displayed | |
| 19.0 | CC 2019 | 15 Oct 2018 | Adobe release notes - JavaScript refactoring, ECMAScript 6 support, New CEF integration, Security enhancements | |
| 20.0 | CC 2020 | 4 Nov 2019 | Adobe release notes - Seamless Live View editing, Japanese default font, Code hinting improvements | |
| 21.0 | 21.0 | 31 Oct 2020 | Adobe release notes - Feature Summary, Dreamweaver (October 2020 release) | |
| 21.2 | Oct 2021 | Native Apple M1 support, Chromium Embedded Framework performance and compatibility improvements. | ||
| 21.3 | June 2022 | Upgraded OpenSSH, OpenSSL, LibCurl, Node, Ruby and RubyGems and Xalan. |
See also Edit
References Edit
- ^ a b "Dreamweaver system requirements".. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
- ^ "Feature summary - Dreamweaver (June 2022 release)". June 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ (PDF). Press Releases. Adobe, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer Center. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5-5.5 Troubleshooting" (PDF). adobe.com. 2015-11-05.
- ^ "What's new (CS5.5)". adobe.com. 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
- ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
- ^ . Adobe Systems. 18 September 2006. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver® 8
- ^ Adobe's Subscription-Only CC Release Carries Obvious Upside But Big Risk | Forbes
- ^ Adobe exec: Creative Cloud complainers will love us once they try us (interview) 2018-08-02 at the Wayback Machine, VentureBeat
- ^ Adobe's Move to the Cloud Incites Anger and Other Top Comments, Mashable
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2014-11-27.
- ^ Neil Bennett (15 May 2013) Analysis: The real reason Adobe ditched Creative Suite for Creative Cloud 2017-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on 2013-07-21, www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
- ^ Adobe’s Creative Cloud Sparks Thunderous Revolt 2017-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, 25 May 2013, truth-out.org
- ^ Some Artists Give Adobe's Cloud Switch a Critical Review Archived June 16, 2013, at archive.today, Fox Business
- "Adobe Unveils Milestone 2015 Creative Cloud Release", News Release, Adobe Systems, 16 June 2015.
- "New features summary: Adobe Dreamweaver CC (2015 release)", Dreamweaver Help, Adobe Systems.
External links Edit
- Official website