There must be a successor, right?
I doubt it's worth it since you can get the same results in a few hours with Tailwind.
Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#52People keep telling me to use Dreamweaver but I stick with what works: FrontPage 98
Microsoft Word's "Save as Web Page" or GTFO.
Using view source in IE to discover how certain layouts and effects were done and trying to replicate it on Notepad... and then downloading Dreamweaver because you were a n00b and needed that WYSIWYG goodness.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#53I still cant believe what Adobe did with Flash.
Really, it’s more about what Apple did with Flash. iOS not supporting it is what killed it.
Flash being a persistent security hole and memory hog is what killed it. Adobe should have gotten their shit together. Apple saved us from the hell of fixed resolution flash apps and dozens of flash ads on a page.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#54I 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?
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#55Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. Early 2000s Adobe was stacked with web technology. They knew where the world was headed, but didn't quite capture it the right way. Flash, Shockwave, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Homesite, Fireworks, Coldfusion, Adobe AIR, LiveMotion, Actionscript 3.0, MXML, Flex. They shipped so much software, it's incredible.
Macromedia is really where to point most of that admiration IMO. Most of the products you list were developed there and then Adobe bought the company.
Jeremy Allaire somehow flies under the radar as an impactful tech entrepreneur, but look at this resume: Allaire Corp, Macromedia, Brightcove, Circle.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#56Around the same time, I was using Coda actually!
https://web.archive.org/web/20101007013748/http://panic.com/...
I had only used dreamweaver a small amount at highschool, but the imac we had at home had a Coda license on it. While I don't think I could comfortably use Dreamweaver to make something today, Coda is possibly usable. Coda 2 since came out which I never tried, and now it's a new editor called Nova, which I was using for a short while but has strayed away from the style-focused Coda 1.x.
I would like to see that class of "make your own website" desktop editors come back, that bridge the line between dreamweaver and IntelliJ. Just a few core IDE features that make it not a pain to use, and just a few GUI features to make designing easy.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#57Wow, I was taught Dreamweaver on a college course in the very early 2000s but I have never really seen it used professionally.
In 20+ years of employment I think I came across one developer who used it, and that was probably in 2005 or so!
Find it hard to imagine what kind of team would use it for development today.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#58Nobody uses it to build anything professional, it's a cute toy
I think I used it to build an ie5 for Macintosh compatible Sharepoint theme.
Age check if you’re shuddering now.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#59I still use it when I have to update my website.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#60I had no idea that you could even still get a copy of Dreamweaver anymore, but a quick search seems to confirm that, indeed, you can still get it. As a teenager I used to use a pirated copy of Dreamweaver, and it was cool but I eventually just learned HTML since I found that the stuff I wrote ended up being better than the stuff being generated by Dreamweaver, and of course that had the advantage of being legal and f…
Macromedia didn't mind the piracy at the time. People learned from pirated versions and then went to work in companies that bought licenses. They bootstrapped the company with that tactic. Same with Flash.