Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from

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. It was created by

Macromedia Macromedia, Inc., was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company (1992–2005) headquartered in San Francisco, California, that made products such as Flash and Dreamweaver. It was purchased by its rival Adobe System ...

in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the

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and

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s. 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,

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, and various

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languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and

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Features

Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a web design and an

Integrated Development Environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools ...

(IDE) application that is used to develop and design websites. Dreamweaver includes a code editor that supports

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, 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

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, SFTP, or

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. Dreamweaver CS4 supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system. Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports

for the following languages: *

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(ASP). * C# * Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) * ColdFusion * EDML *

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(XHTML) *

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(XML) *

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(XSLT) *

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(HTML) *

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(VB) * Visual Basic Script Edition (

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) * Wireless Markup Language (WML) Support for

(ASP) and

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was dropped in version CS5. Users can add their language syntax highlighting. Code completion is available for many of these languages.

Internationalization and Localization

Language availability

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.

Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages

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

References

"Adobe Unveils Milestone 2015 Creative Cloud Release"
News Release, Adobe Systems, 16 June 2015.

Dreamweaver Help, Adobe Systems.

External links

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