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Adobe Dreamweaver
Developer(s)Adobe Systems (formerly by Macromedia)
Stable release
11.0.2 Build 4916 (CS5) / July 12, 2010 (2010-07-12)
Written inC++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Mac OS X
TypeIDE
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteAdobe Dreamweaver Homepage

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

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.

Features

Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites 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 6, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:

It is also possible to add your own language syntax highlighting.

In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.

Version history

Provider Major Version Minor/Alternate Name Release date Notes
Macromedia 1.0 1.0 December 1997 Initial release.
1.2 March 1998
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 May 29, 2002
7.0 MX 2004 September 10, 2003
8.0[1] 8.0 September 13, 2005
Adobe 9.0 CS3 April 16, 2007 Replaced Adobe GoLive in the Creative Suite series
10.0 CS4 September 23, 2008
11.0 CS5 April 12, 2010
Color Meaning
Red Release no longer supported
Green Release still supported

Internationalization and localization

Language availability

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified (Windows only), Chinese Traditional (Windows only), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[2]

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.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/".
  2. ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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