I have this recurring dream where I'm on a porch swing with 90's Sports Illustrated model Kathy Ireland and she's feeding me a Philly cheese steak sandwich while we watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and the Ohio State Marching Band runs their halftime routine in my front yard to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Curtis Loew"... I really hate saying it, but that dream has virtually the same possibility of coming true. Adobe is allowing DW to die on the vine. There are no new features or bug fixes planned going forward, especially anything that would require a massive overhaul of the program. They announced 5 or so years ago, that DW has been shifted to a "Minimum Development Status" meaning they will only update third party libraries (which they're only partially doing), conduct potential security patches, and fix OS compatibility issues. I assume once the userbase dwindles to some predetermined point, they'll simply pull the plug and DW will disappear from the Creative Cloud and end up in the same fugue plane as Adobe GoLive. Though they have refrained from saying anything like that, given Adobe's policy on product announcements, they wouldn't tell us until the day it happens anyway. It would probably be best at this point to move to something that fits your needs more completely, than to hope DW does any sort of "keeping up with the Joneses".
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