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[edit] Adobe

I am perhaps being pedantic, but although Adobe bought over Macromedia, all programs which were originally developed by Macromedia retained the name "Macromedia ..." - to change this article's page to Adobe Dreamweaver is incorrect. I suggest a revert back. Dannerz

I agree. The current version (8) is still called 'Macromedia Dreamweaver'. If you go out and purchase a copy of it, it still says "Macromedia Dreamweaver", not "Adobe Dreamweaver". In the Adobe Store it is also still called "Macromedia Dreamweaver" When the next version is released, if it is called "Adobe Dreamweaver", then the title of the article can be changed. 131.230.72.101 16:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
It looks like Adobe is renaming thier products starting with Adobe Creative Suite 3. The some of the old Macromedia products that are being kept, including Dreamweaver, will carry the Adobe name starting with the CS3 version. After the new products are officially released, we should look in to changing this an other Adobe product pages to match the new naming scheme.--Janus657 18:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copying

I have no idea if copying is allowed, but just in case it is not somebody should veiw this website: OldVersion.com Dreamweaver and compare it to this article --DotDarkCloud 03:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

It all depends on which direction things are copied. Can you take text that's under copyright and add it to Wikipedia? No. Can others take text from Wikipedia and put it on their sites? Sure -- WP has lots of mirrors all over the place, and that's allowed by the license. In this particular case, it looks as those those folks took the description of all or most of their apps from WP and then put they own copyright on it. That's not a good idea, but I doubt that anyone from here is going to go chasing them down unless they try enforcing their non-existent copyright.
It's kind of interesting; by looking at their site you can just about figure out when they grabbed each app's description. Their Firefox page [1], for example, is based on the WP Firefox entry towards the end of June 2006. Dori 05:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

I think we should put a disambiguation page for "Dreamweaver", or at least but a notice at the top. There's a "Dream Weaver (song)" and and article about "Dream Weavers", a band. 24.42.21.58 18:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. ¦ Reisio 20:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I've long suspected the program was named after the song - can anyone confirm or deny? Lee M 03:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HTML editor?

Dreamweaver is not just a HTML editor. It supports PHP, asp, CSS. Maybe a "web development" tool is a better word for it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghezus (talk • contribs) 20:37, January 12, 2006

Go for it. ¦ Reisio 02:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
If I may throw in my $0.02 -- DW started out as an HTML editor and is still primarily associated with that market. Also, look up HTML editor to see that they have broadened its definition. If you feel that this change is really needed, I'd suggest that we don't remove the term "HTML editor" althogether.
Oh, I just realized that "web editor" might be a good alternative, it already redirects to HTML editor. Jbetak 02:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I have several objections to the change. "Web editor" is a horrible term as it is so ridiculously ambiguous. Additionally, linking to web editor would be an ambiguous link (link to a redirect). At the least, the phrase should remain "HTML editor". However, I agree that recent versions of Dreamweaver have steered the application away from being just an HTML editor and with the addition of support for several sever-side technologies as well as its CSS and Javascript support, it has, in fact, become a "web development" tool. I'll rephrase the opening paragraph to emphasize this. BurntSky 06:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Click to activate and use this control" Issue

i feel that the fact that dw has addressed this issue is worth mentioning. this needs to be here or in the comparison chart of all web/html editors. its an important feature that dreamweaver has been the first to include(?). the feature is a big help to non coders who need to add multymedia to their page, and don't know how to use the javascript workaround.:: chaitanyak 05:41, 06 september 2006 (UTC)


I personally don't see what this has to do with Dreamweaver at all and not instead internet explorer. it doesn't belong on the page as it has nothing to do with dreamweaver. Donatj 04:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I also fail to see the connection between DW and this section. I think it should be moved, but I don't know enough about the issue to say where it should go.

I agree. This section should be moved elsewhere or removed completely. This would be more appropriate in the Internet Explorer article, not the Dreamweaver one. 131.230.53.142 23:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

This issue is already mentioned in the Object Linking and Embedding article, therefore I recommend that it be removed from this article. 131.230.53.142 06:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Market share

"Dreamweaver (...) currently holds approximately 80% of the HTML editor market."

I highly doubt that. Where are your sources? --Peter Eisenburger 18:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

This might be true if you only count the editors that people actually pay for. Most people use free editors this is one of the few people are willing to pay money for. So it might hold *0% of the market but that doesn't mean 80% designers are using it. Still needs a source. 131.91.92.184 (talk) 14:47, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wine and Unix mention?

Is the Wine mention really necessary? I use Wine to run Adobe products, but the point is that Wine is developed to run Windows programs non-native to *nix on *nix. Mentioning on every single page about a software product, excepting those that run on *nix, that it can be emulated, is unnecessary. Dylan 02:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

AOL, that's redundant. There's plenty of virutalisation techniques and emulation software that can run it on platforms other than it was intended for. Jerazol 05:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dreamweaver cs3.png

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[edit] Manual Code Preservation

I remember the most publicized feature of the original Dreamweaver was its ability to preserve manual html (it didn't change any part of the html unless you specifically edited it). It was called "round-trip" editing or something like that, and it was the first one to use it (GoLive copied it afterwards, I think), shouldn't that be mentioned somewhere in the article? IMO it's what's missing in a lot of the open-source alternatives. 200.106.69.146 06:59, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WinSoft

The page mentions that the middle eastern versions are available from WinSoft; while this may be true, is it relevant at all? Ms331 (talk) 11:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

This article is completely unsourced with the exception of a reference for the statement that Middle Eastern language versions are available from WinSoft.

Come on. There are so many factual statements in this article without a shred of sourcing or references to check the facts that adding {{fact|date=March 2008}} tags to every one would make the article unreadable.

For example, here are some of the unsourced facts, not by any means a complete list:

  • Dreamweaver was originally created by Macromedia
  • Dreamweaver is now owned by Adobe Systems
  • Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in 2005
  • Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies ...
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • ASP.NET
  • ColdFusion
  • JavaServer Pages
  • PHP
  • Dreamweaver can hide the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites
  • A professional criticism of this approach is that it produces HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is much larger than they should be
  • The application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts
  • some web site developers have criticized Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply with W3C standards
  • ... though this has improved considerably in recent versions
  • Dreamweaver 8.0 ... performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project
  • Macromedia has increased the support for CSS and other ways to lay out a page without tables in later versions of the application, with the ability to convert tables to layers and vice versa
  • Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in many browsers, provided that they are installed on their computer
  • It also has some site management tools, such as the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by whatever parameters specified across the entire site, and a templatization feature for creating multiple pages with similar structures
  • The behaviors panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge
  • As of version 6, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box
  • The easiest way to build a professional website using Dreamweaver software is by using the Layout functions, it is very easy to organize the web page just using the Layout option provided by Dreamweaver

And on and on and on. Sources are needed that list the features available in Dreamweaver. I could easily add a sentence saying it is backwards-compatible with Aldus PageMaker and there would be no way to confirm or deny the statement. (Yes, I know they're not similar products and would never have been compatible, would everyone reading this article know that? Presumably not, as they're consulting an encyclopedia to gain information about the software.)

Likewise, sources for the praise and criticism of the software are critical to the verifiability of the article.

I just came looking for info about the software and didn't find the information I wanted. I'm not staying to find the missing sources, so don't respond with "go ahead", "have at it", or other such platitudes. If you want the article to be included in Wikipedia, it has to be sourced. Unsourced material may be removed; it's the obligation of the author to source it, not the reader.75.58.86.160 (talk) 08:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)