Adobe Dreamweaver

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Adobe Dreamweaver (Dreamweaver CS5)

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 under Windows 7
Developer(s)	Adobe Systems (formerly by Macromedia)
Stable release	11.5 (CS5.5) / April 12, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-04-12)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X
Type	IDE
License	Proprietary
Website	adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

Dreamweaver 8, the last version marketed by Macromedia

Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) is a proprietary web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005.^[1]

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, ColdFusion, and PHP.^[2]

Features

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web authoring application that allows users to preview websites natively in a preview pane or in locally installed web browsers. It provides transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. The behaviours panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and integration with Adobe's Spry Ajax framework offers easy access to dynamically-generated content and interfaces.

Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core functionality of the application, which any web developer can write (largely in HTML and JavaScript). 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.

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.

Syntax highlighting

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

• ActionScript
• Active Server Pages (ASP).
• ASP.NET (no longer supported as of version CS4 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html)
• 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
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) (no longer supported as of version CS4 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html)
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
• Visual Basic (VB)
• Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)

It is also possible for users to add their own language syntax highlighting. In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.

Internationalization and localization

Language availability

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.^[3]

Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages

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

Version history

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 1999
	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.
Adobe	9.0	CS3	16 April 2007	Replaces Adobe GoLive in Creative Suite.
	10.0	CS4	23 September 2008
	11.0	CS5	12 April 2010
	11.5	CS5.5	12 April 2011

Color	Legend
Red	Old version, no longer supported
Yellow	Old version, still supported
Green	Current version

See also

• Web application
• TinyMCE
• YUI Rich Text Editor
• Comparison of HTML editors

References

1. ^ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia". Press Releases. Adobe, Inc.. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/200512/120505AdobeAcquiresMacromedia.pdf. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
2. ^ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer Center. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/application_development.html. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
3. ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/systemreqs/. Retrieved 2011-01-29. 

External links

• Official website
• Adobe Dreamweaver Extensions