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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by bdcravens »

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #54
nightpool wrote: post #39

I heard recently during the big government purge that a lot of the actual mechanics of that purge functioned by revoking people's Dreamweaver licenses, and that a lot of .gov websites run on Dreamweaver. Probably the US government is singlehandedly keeping Dreamweaver alive through large annual contracts for new features. I don't have any concrete sources on this, it was just Twitter gossip, but it makes a lot of sen…

Is it not included as part of the general Adobe subscriptions?

It is. https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by pentagrama »

snowwrestler wrote: post #65

I had to read the question twice. Dreamweaver was the go-to in 2010 ? I think it was already well on its decline by then. At a new job in 2003 one of my first tasks was to generate new “heat map” code since the company was updating the background image file for 50-state map interfaces. Dreamweaver had the best interface for doing that work, so I got a copy and spent a couple days carefully tracing the 50 state outlin…

My first websites around 98 I landed on something more obscure to build them I think, Net Objects Fusion. Later switched to (Macromedia) Dreamweaver.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by [deleted] »

agumonkey wrote: post #88
trinix912 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time. A mess of tables, inline styles, Internet Explorer-specific tricks, plus a reliance on FrontPage Server Extensions for full functionality. Adobe still had GoLive at the time, which was basically what Dreamweaver is now, and it didn't mangle the output as much, neither did Netscape Composer (which was way more limited). Many of the s…

I forgot if FrontPage had the automatic FTP upload or if it's a fantasy in my mind.

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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by mentos »

Bayart wrote: post #15
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #7

There must be a successor, right?

Webflow ? Squarespace ? I assumed that segment had been occupied by CMS and SaaS companies.

I tried out Webflow this past week was a pretty enjoyable experience took me back to Dreamweaver days a bit.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by clintonb »

agumonkey wrote: post #88
trinix912 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time. A mess of tables, inline styles, Internet Explorer-specific tricks, plus a reliance on FrontPage Server Extensions for full functionality. Adobe still had GoLive at the time, which was basically what Dreamweaver is now, and it didn't mangle the output as much, neither did Netscape Composer (which was way more limited). Many of the s…

I forgot if FrontPage had the automatic FTP upload or if it's a fantasy in my mind.

Dreamweaver had FTP uploads. Frontpage only uploaded to servers that supported their protocol.
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