Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems.
Dreamweaver was created byMacromedia 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]
Contents
1Features
2Internationalization and localization
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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, orWebDAV. 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
Minor
Release
version
update
date
Macromedia
1.0
December
1997
Notes
First version. Mac OS only.
1.0
1.2
2.0
2.0
3.0
March 1998
December
1998
December
1999
3.0
UltraDev
1.0
4.0
4.0
June 2000
December
2000
First Windows version
6.0
UltraDev
December
4.0
2000
MX
29 May
2002
10
7.0
MX 2004
September
2003
13
8.0
8.0
September
2005
Adobe
Systems
9.0
CS3
Last Macromedia version. Included with
Adobe CS2.3[6]
16 April
Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative
2007
Suite
23
10.0
CS4
September
2008
11.0
CS5
11.5
CS5.5
12.0
CS6
12 April
2010
12 April
2011
Supports HTML5.
21 April
A perpetual license (disk version) and
2012
download only (Cloud version) exist with
differing menu structure
13.0
Creative
17 June
The perpetual license option is dropped in this
Cloud
2013
version.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
18 June
DOM visualization tool, Live View upgrades,
2014
CSS Designer upgrades.
14.0
CC 2014
14.1
Ability to view and extract design info and
6 October
images from Photoshop documents (PSDs),
2014
new templates, Live View upgrades, and 64bit architecture.
Responsive design capabilities with visual
16.0
CC 2015
16 June
2015
media query bars, direct integration with
the Bootstrap framework, ability to preview
and inspect content on mobile devices, and
improvements to the code editor.
References[edit]
1.
^ Jump up to:a b Dreamweaver system requirements at the Wayback Machine (archived May
17, 2009). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
2.
Jump up^ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia" (PDF). Press Releases. Adobe, Inc.
Retrieved 15 November 2011.
3.
Jump up^ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer
Center. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
4.
Jump up^ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html
5.
Jump up^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe
Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
6.
Jump up^ "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.
Jump up^ Adobe's Subscription-Only CC Release Carries Obvious Upside But Big Risk |
Forbes
8.
Jump up^ Adobe exec: Creative Cloud complainers will love us once they try us (interview),
VentureBeat
9.
Jump up^ Adobe's Move to the Cloud Incites Anger and Other Top Comments, Mashable
10.
Jump up^ Adobe Creative Cloud: Reactions, responses and reassurance | Macworld UK
11.
Jump up^ 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.
Jump up^ Adobes Creative Cloud Sparks Thunderous Revolt, 25 May 2013, truth-out.org
13.
Jump up^ Some Artists Give Adobe's Cloud Switch a Critical Review, 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.
