Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe. It was created by Macromedia in 1997[1] and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[3]
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 Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 running on macOS Catalina | |
| Developer(s) | Adobe (2005–present) Macromedia (before 2005) |
|---|---|
| Initial release | December 1997[1] |
| Stable release | 21.4[2] 
/ 6 May 2024 |
| 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.com/dreamweaver |
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
editAdobe 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
editLanguage availability
editAdobe Dreamweaver CS6 is available in 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
editThe 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.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Dreamweaver system requirements".. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
- ^ "Feature summary | Dreamweaver (May 2024 release)". 6 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia" (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 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.
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