Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe . It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
18-498: Adobe Connect (formerly Presedia Publishing System , Macromedia Breeze , and Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro ) is a software suite for remote training, web conferencing , presentation, and desktop sharing. All meeting rooms are organized into 'pods'; with each pod performing a specific role (e.g. chat, whiteboard, note etc.). Adobe Connect was formerly part of the Adobe Acrobat family and has changed names several times. The product
36-548: A stock swap valued at approximately $ 3.4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement. The acquisition took place on December 3, 2005, and Adobe integrated the company's operations, networks, and customer care organizations shortly thereafter. On August 22, 1997, stockholders filed a class-action lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco, accusing Macromedia of misleading stockholders on
54-404: A Web application platform, adding scripting and data access capabilities to the player while attempting to retain its small footprint. In December 1999, Macromedia acquired traffic analysis software company Andromedia Corporation. Web development company Allaire was acquired in 2001 and Macromedia added several popular servers and Web developments tools to its portfolio, including ColdFusion ,
72-664: A strong competitor among amateur and business users. Macromedia acquired FutureWave Software , makers of FutureSplash Animator , in November 1996. FutureSplash Animator was an animation tool originally developed for pen-based computing devices. Because of the small size of the FutureSplash Viewer application, it was particularly suited for download over the Internet, where most users, at the time, had low-bandwidth connections. Macromedia renamed Splash to Macromedia Flash , and following
90-673: A web application server based on the CFML language, JRun , a Java EE application server, and HomeSite , an HTML code editor that was also bundled with Dreamweaver. In 2003, Macromedia acquired the web conferencing company Presedia and continued to develop and enhance their Flash-based online collaboration and presentation product offering under the brand Breeze . Later that year, Macromedia also acquired help authoring software company eHelp Corporation , whose products included RoboHelp and RoboDemo (now Adobe Captivate ). On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in
108-474: 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
126-567: 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 . Adobe Dreamweaver CC
144-744: The Subversion (SVN) version control system. Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages: Support for Active Server Pages (ASP) and JavaServer Pages was dropped in version CS5. Users can add their language syntax highlighting. Code completion is available for many of these languages. Adobe 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. The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features
162-753: The Connect server. 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 Systems on December 3, 2005. Macromedia originated with the 1992 merger of Authorware Inc. (makers of Authorware ) and MacroMind–Paracomp (makers of Macromind Director ). Director , an interactive multimedia-authoring tool used to make presentations, animations, CD-ROMs and information kiosks, served as Macromedia's flagship product until
180-454: The acquisition by Adobe , Macromedia Breeze Meeting was initially rebranded to Adobe Connect, then Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional and later as Adobe Connect. The full product line includes rebranded versions of Breeze Training, Breeze Meeting, Breeze Presenter, and Breeze Events. Adobe Connect includes the following applications: It can interoperate with Adobe Captivate , a rapid eLearning authoring tool with capability to publish directly
198-662: The company's product success and financial health. A similar suit had been filed a month earlier. The class-action suit was dismissed by a federal judge on May 19, 1998. On August 10, 2000, Adobe claimed that Macromedia violated two of its patents on tabbed palettes. Macromedia countered with a claim that Adobe infringed on Macromedia's patents for a draw-based editor for Web pages and a hierarchical structure editor for Web sites. In July 2002, Adobe and Macromedia reached an agreement that settled all claims in this series of patent suits. Eventually, Adobe acquired Macromedia 3 years later. Macromedia Dreamweaver Adobe Dreamweaver
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#1733106360362216-461: The lead of Netscape , distributed the Flash Player as a free browser plugin in order to quickly gain market share. As of 2005, more computers worldwide had the Flash Player installed than any other Web media format, including Java , QuickTime , RealNetworks , and Windows Media Player . As Flash matured, Macromedia's focus shifted from marketing it as a graphics and media tool to promoting it as
234-462: The mid-1990s. Authorware was Macromedia's principal product in the interactive learning market. As the Internet moved from a university research medium to a commercial network, Macromedia began working to web-enable its existing tools and develop new products like Dreamweaver . Macromedia created Shockwave , a Director-viewer plugin for web browsers. The first multimedia playback in Netscape's browser
252-587: The program would prove useful to Macromedia in the development of Fireworks . In March 1996, Macromedia acquired iBand Software, makers of the Backstage HTML authoring tool and application server. Macromedia developed a new HTML -authoring tool, Dreamweaver , around portions of the Backstage codebase and released the first version in 1997. At the time, most professional web authors preferred to code HTML by hand using text editors because they wanted full control over
270-541: The similarities with Adobe Illustrator , the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint in October 1994 ordering the divestiture of FreeHand back to Altsys. With Macromedia's acquisition of Altsys, it received FreeHand thus expanding its product line of multimedia graphics software to include illustration and design graphics software. FreeHand's vector graphics rendering engine and other software components within
288-400: The source. Dreamweaver addressed this with its "Roundtrip HTML" feature, which attempted to preserve the fidelity of hand-edited source code during visual edits, allowing users to work back and forth between visual and code editing. Over the next few years Dreamweaver became widely adopted among professional web authors, though many still preferred to hand-code, and Microsoft FrontPage remained
306-537: Was a Director plug-in. Macromedia licensed Sun's Java Programming Language in October 1995. By 2002, Macromedia had produced more than 20 products and had 30 offices in 13 countries. In January 1995, Macromedia acquired Altsys Corporation after Adobe Systems announced a merger with Altsys' business partner, the Aldus Corporation . Altsys was the developer of the vector-drawing program FreeHand , which had been licensed by Aldus for marketing and sales. Because of
324-473: Was first developed by a startup called Presedia and included a first generation PowerPoint -to- Flash Plugin (which then became Adobe Presenter ) and a training module. Macromedia acquired Presedia and added on a real-time web conferencing component, called Breeze Live (later renamed Breeze Meeting). In version 5, Macromedia Breeze included four applications: Breeze Presenter test, Breeze Training, Breeze Meeting, and Breeze Events (new in version 5). Following
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