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; 18 years ago[1]
Stable release	CC (2015 – 16.0.0.7698) / June 16, 2015; 6 months ago
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 variousserver-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion,Scriptlet, and PHP.^[3]

Contents

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• 1Features
• 2Internationalization and localization
  • 2.1Language availability
  • 2.2Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
• 3Version history
• 4See also
• 5References
• 6External links

Features[edit]

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:

• 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
• Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
• Visual Basic (VB)
• Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)

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[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.^[5]

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]

Provider	Major version	Minor update/alternative name	Release date	Notes
Macromedia	1.0	1.0	December 1997	First version. Mac OS only.
		1.2	March 1998	First Windows version
	2.0	2.0	December 1998
	3.0	3.0	December 1999
		UltraDev 1.0	June 2000
	4.0	4.0	December 2000
		UltraDev 4.0	December 2000
	6.0	MX	29 May 2002
	7.0	MX 2004	10 September 2003
	8.0	8.0	13 September 2005	Last Macromedia version. Included with Adobe CS2.3[6]
Adobe Systems	9.0	CS3	16 April 2007	Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative Suite
	10.0	CS4	23 September 2008
	11.0	CS5	12 April 2010
	11.5	CS5.5	12 April 2011	Supports HTML5.
	12.0	CS6	21 April 2012	A perpetual license (disk version) and download only (Cloud version) exist with differing menu structure
	13.0	Creative Cloud	17 June 2013	The perpetual license option is dropped in this version.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
	14.0	CC 2014	18 June 2014	DOM visualization tool, Live View upgrades, CSS Designer upgrades.
	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.
	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