- Dreamweaver 8 supports Windows® 2000, Windows XP and Macintosh Mac OS® X 10.3 and 10.4. Starting with this release, however, Dreamweaver no longer supports Windows 98, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, or Macintosh OS 10.2.x or earlier. Complete product system requirements and recommendations are available at www.adobe.com/go/sysreqs.
- May 20, 2014 Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 for Mac allows you to create and publish Web pages for both desktop and mobile browsers, even if you don't know code.
Dreamweaver 8 and Dreamweaver 8 Update 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 Release Notes
This document addresses issues not covered in the Dreamweaver 8 documentation. This document may be updated as more information becomes available.
About Dreamweaver 8
Free download Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 for Mac OS X. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Web design software provides an intuitive visual interface for making and editing HTML websites and mobile apps.
Macromedia® Dreamweaver® 8 from Adobe is the industry-leading web development tool that lets you efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. Dreamweaver 8 provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support.
What's New in Dreamweaver 8
Dreamweaver 8 includes many new features to help you create and maintain websites that range from basic home pages to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies. For a list of the features, see the Dreamweaver page on the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/dreamweaver.
About the 8.0.1 Update
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (8.0.1) fixes known problems in Dreamweaver 8. Make sure the language version of the updater matches the language version of your copy of Dreamweaver. For example, you can't use the English updater with a non-English version of Dreamweaver.
About the 8.0.2 Update
The Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (8.0.2) update includes all of the fixes in the 8.0.1 update. If you haven’t installed the 8.0.1 update yet, simply install the 8.0.2 update to get all the fixes for both updates.
Also make sure the language version of the updater matches the language version of your copy of Dreamweaver. For example, you can't use the English updater with a non-English version of Dreamweaver.
Note: If you press Cancel during the installation process in Windows, you will no longer be able to update Dreamweaver. To update to 8.0.2, you will need to uninstall and re-install Dreamweaver. For more information, please see Tech Note 785362aa at www.adobe.com/go/785362aa.
If you installed Dreamweaver 8 from a CD, you will be prompted to insert the CD when running the 8.0.2 updater. If you no longer have the CD, you can try the following workaround:
- Download the Dreamweaver trial version installer from the Dreamweaver website.
- Launch it.
- Once the Welcome dialog box appears, browse to C:WINDOWSDownloaded InstallationsMacromedia Dreamweaver 8.
- Copy the msi installer to the desktop (or anywhere).
- Quit the trial installer.
- Launch the 8.0.2 updater.
- When prompted for the original CD, click the Browse button and select the msi from step 4.
- Finish the installation.
For network installations, please read Installing Studio 8 Windows products over a network (Tech Note a4175402).
System requirements
Dreamweaver 8 supports Windows® 2000, Windows XP and Macintosh Mac OS® X 10.3 and 10.4. Starting with this release, however, Dreamweaver no longer supports Windows 98, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, or Macintosh OS 10.2.x or earlier.
Complete product system requirements and recommendations are available at www.adobe.com/go/sysreqs.
This product contains activation. An Internet connection is required to complete activation.
Issues resolved with the 8.0.1 update
The 8.0.1 update fixes bugs in Dreamweaver 8 on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The following are some of the more important issues resolved. A list of all the bugs fixed is available on the Adobe website.
Starting up
The update fixes a sporadic problem where Dreamweaver would not start after a few days.
Files panel (Macintosh)
The update fixes a problem on the Macintosh where Dreamweaver would take a long time to resize the Files panel or display the Assets panel when it contained a lot of image files.
File time stamp (Windows)
The update fixes a bug in Windows where Dreamweaver incorrectly time-stamped remote files when putting the files using a Local/Network connection.
Issues resolved with the 8.0.2 update
The 8.0.2 update fixes the following two issues on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.
SQL injections in web applications
The update updates server-side code generated by Dreamweaver to protect databases against SQL Injection.
Active content
The update fixes a problem with the code generated by Dreamweaver when it inserts active content such as a Flash file in a web page. In the latest versions of Internet Explorer, the generated code by Dreamweaver does not allow users to interact with the active content unless they click it. The update fixes the code generated by Dreamweaver so that users don’t have to click the active content. The update also provides a way to repair the code of existing pages with active content.
Known Issues
GENERAL
Migrating your sites
If Dreamweaver MX 2004 is installed on your computer, Dreamweaver 8 will automatically migrate your sites.
If Dreamweaver MX 2004 is installed on your computer, Dreamweaver 8 will automatically migrate your sites.
Usernames and passwords for your sites must be re-entered
For sites migrated from Dreamweaver MX 2004, you'll need to re-enter the username and password in the Site Definition dialog box before you can connect. This is one-time requirement. We changed the way Dreamweaver encrypts the usernames and passwords used for FTP, SFTP, RDS, and WebDAV connections. We now let the operating system do the encryption.
For sites migrated from Dreamweaver MX 2004, you'll need to re-enter the username and password in the Site Definition dialog box before you can connect. This is one-time requirement. We changed the way Dreamweaver encrypts the usernames and passwords used for FTP, SFTP, RDS, and WebDAV connections. We now let the operating system do the encryption.
New tag completion behavior
The new default behavior in Dreamweaver 8 is to automatically complete the closing tag when you type “</”. Dreamweaver figures out which tag needs to be closed for you automatically. This new behavior is on by default. The classic Dreamweaver closing tag behavior can be turned on in the Code Hints preferences panel (Edit > Preferences).
The new default behavior in Dreamweaver 8 is to automatically complete the closing tag when you type “</”. Dreamweaver figures out which tag needs to be closed for you automatically. This new behavior is on by default. The classic Dreamweaver closing tag behavior can be turned on in the Code Hints preferences panel (Edit > Preferences).
Adobe Dreamweaver For Mac
MACINTOSH-SPECIFIC ISSUES
Diff tool preference for the Macintosh
If you want to use a file comparison tool with Dreamweaver, you must specify it as a preference. For Macintosh diff tools, you must specify the tool or script that launches the file comparison tool from the command line, not the actual file comparison tool itself. Launch tools or scripts are typically located in the usr/bin folder on your Macintosh. For example, if you want to use FileMerge, browse to usr/bin and select opendiff, which is the tool that launches FileMerge. For BBEdit, select usr/bin/bbdiff. For TextWrangler, select usr/bin/twdiff. For more information, see' Specifying the comparison tool in Dreamweaver' in Using Dreamweaver help.
If you want to use a file comparison tool with Dreamweaver, you must specify it as a preference. For Macintosh diff tools, you must specify the tool or script that launches the file comparison tool from the command line, not the actual file comparison tool itself. Launch tools or scripts are typically located in the usr/bin folder on your Macintosh. For example, if you want to use FileMerge, browse to usr/bin and select opendiff, which is the tool that launches FileMerge. For BBEdit, select usr/bin/bbdiff. For TextWrangler, select usr/bin/twdiff. For more information, see' Specifying the comparison tool in Dreamweaver' in Using Dreamweaver help.
Help content does not appear
In some cases when attempting to view Help within Dreamweaver (Help > Dreamweaver Help), the viewer content is empty. The aliases to the Help files may not have been created correctly during installation or are pointing to the wrong locations. For detailed instructions for fixing this problem, see Help viewer does not show content (Macintosh only) (Tech Note a3f38dcf) on the Adobe website.
In some cases when attempting to view Help within Dreamweaver (Help > Dreamweaver Help), the viewer content is empty. The aliases to the Help files may not have been created correctly during installation or are pointing to the wrong locations. For detailed instructions for fixing this problem, see Help viewer does not show content (Macintosh only) (Tech Note a3f38dcf) on the Adobe website.
Documentation
Dreamweaver 8 includes a variety of media to help you learn the application and become proficient with creating web graphics. The Dreamweaver help system includes documentation to help you use Dreamweaver and develop Dreamweaver extensions. You can also consult additional online resources on the Dreamweaver Documentation Resource Center at www.adobe.com/go/dw_documentation.
The Dreamweaver Documentation Resource Center includes errata correcting known errors or omissions in the Dreamweaver documentation.
Reporting a bug
Found a bug? Your first step should be to contact Adobe Customer Support. They can help you resolve issues and they can also log bugs. If you're no longer eligible for support, please use the Adobe Software Feature Request and Bug Report form.
Thanks for using Macromedia Dreamweaver and for taking the time to send us your feedback!
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I'm looking for a few freeware alternatives to Dreamweaver that I can use in my Mac that runs on OS X Lion. Shoot the best free, website development applications you know?
Dave
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As Andrew Larsson said, there is Mac version for latest Adobe Dreamweaver (url is the same as for Windows version).
If it's a tool that you like and already own, but it's not supported by Mac, then you may try to make it work under OSX using Parallels or wine. Some people made different Dreamweaver versions to work on wine (on linux), so you may try to install wine on Mac and then install Dreamweaver in this case.
Easiest and most user friendly editor I've found so far is Fraise. It is small and nice, there's no 'workspaces' like in Eclipse and key-combinations like in Eclipse and Vim. It just stays out of your way and allows to edit HTML (there is preview window for it), CSS, and a lot of other file formats. I haven't seen yet any possibility of code-completion, but is it a big deal?
Ironically you may need to build it from source (but it's very and fast if you know how to use git and Xcode)
They say that it supports both code editing and WYSIWYG and it definitely works on OSX so you may like it. I've never tried it though.
There are also at least 2 tools based on Eclipse that you can use for web development:
It incluses tools for JavaScript developers creating Web applications, including a JavaScript IDE, tools for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and XML.
As alternative you can install any other eclipse but make sure that it contains Web Tools or install them in eclipse of your choice:
It's also based on Eclipse. Besides HTML, CSS and JavaScript it supports server-site scripting languages (Ruby, Python, PHP). You can preview web pages you edit in built-in browser, but I don't know if it is possible to edit webpages visually in Elipse based IDEs.
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As already noted, this question is a bit vague. So I don't know if you want a WYSIWYG editor or not. So, I'll mention Panic's Coda.
It's a great code editor that supports syntax highlighting and (and my personal favorite) auto fill. It will automatically fill in as you type:
The other thing is that it has an FTP client built-right into it. This is a great application and well worth $100 you spend for it.
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Vi is already installed on your machine, and you can get to it by using the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and typing
vim
. MacVim gives you a few extra features:
MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:
Dreamweaver Mac Free
- bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (⌘Z, ⌘V, ⌘A, ⌘G, etc.)
- transparent backgrounds
- full-screen mode
- multibyte editing with OS X input methods and automatic font substitution
- ODB editor support
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This question is a bit vague — it depends on how you use Dreamweaver. Which Dreamweaver features are important to you? Which ones do you not need?
If you don’t use the WYSIWYG editor (you shouldn’t!) and you’re just looking for a great IDE / code editor, then Sublime Text 3 might be of interest. It’s currently in beta and free (although you can pay to register if you want). It’s highly customizable, too.
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You should look at 'Aptana Studio', currently at Version 3, which is the best free Web-Development Plattform. It's based on the Eclipse Framework, so it's probably not everybodys taste. I think it's a bit sluggish, which is why i bought 'Coda'.
J.C.J.C.
Best WYSIWYG alternative to Dreamweaver for OS X is Kompozer.
Now that Adobe is going cloud only for their software I don't want to spend $200 a year for Dreamweaver. I've found Kompozer to open, change, save my current websites without a problem. Sometimes it is faster for me to make changes via WYSIWYG than by code, sometimes by code.
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If what you want is the bells and whistles (graphcal user interface, buttons for everything, project templates with finished page layouts etc) there are alternatives to DW. Personally I can't stand DW because I feel like I loose control over many aspects of the development process, so I usually stick to the mentioned editor 'Sublime Text' as it has a large community and plugins for doing all sorts of development, both web based and other.
It takes a couple of hours to get comfortable with, and all the configuration happens in text files using JSON, but it is really worth the money as you can use the same license (even synchronize preferences) between Windows, Linux and Mac machines you may have.
Nickelodeon clickamajigs black licorice. If you want pre-made templates and stuff you can take a look atRapid Weaver
It has some really cool features that makes web design a piece of pie.
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There's also CodeKit. It's new and I'm not overly familiar with its capabilities, but thought I should include it for completeness.
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