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.
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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:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP).
- ASP.NET (no longer supported as of version CS4 - Click Here)
- 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 - Click Here)
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- Visual Basic (VB)
- Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
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 update | 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 |
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