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bastelboy
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October 20, 2023
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Dreamweaver support

  • October 20, 2023
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Are Adobe planning to discontinue support for Dreamweaver ?
It seems to be taking a backseat.
For example, 1fr is still a bug in linter since reported in 2018.
This may just be my impression, but it is important to me as I use it for coding static sites.
Has anyone information please?

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    Adobe doesn't communicate their intentions to volunteers.  And employees can't discuss it publicly because they signed NDAs.

     

    As of right now, Adobe is keeping Dreamweaver available for the benefit of older product users. But no new features are planned.  I suggest you use Dreamweaver alongside other tools that are in active development.

     

    See correct answer below for more details on how this impacts users.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/bootstrap-5/m-p/14046967#M225831

     

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    MN_Viper
    Participant
    October 21, 2023

    I've been wondering the same. Glad to see DW has not been abandoned. It has been worrisome though, as every other app in Creative Suite is actively updated and has release years of 2023 or 2024.

     

    The developers should create a copy, that way one copy could be worked on the crashing when people right-click.

     

    - And the other copy would be them working on adding updated support for Bootstrap 5, jQuery, PHP.

    - And I've been wanting to see better PHP formatting, it adds a lot of extra spacing. When adding namespaces, every backslash breaks into a new line. It all makes the code ugly and files larger than necessary.

    - It would also be nice to see an option to compile `.min` files when using CSS preprocessors.

     

    The one thing that could get DW to update very soon is to get;

    - When defining a Site, there is an "Advanced Setting" for the app Contribute. That program has been discontinued. The last it was around was in CS5, the final release was in Oct 2012. That setting can be removed.

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 21, 2023

    @MN_Viper,

    Bootstrap, jQuery & PHP won't be updated. 

    Dreamweaver is not in active development.

    Use other tools that are in active development.

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    MN_Viper
    Participant
    October 22, 2023

    I've tried using other tools.

    I have VS Code for all those dot files (.htaccess, .gitignore, etc...) because DW can't read those files.

     

    That should be a maintenance update;

    - Remove Bootstrap, remove jQuery, and remove the "Enable Contribute compatibility" setting.

     

    In my opinion, adding Bootstrap and jQuery from the INSERT menu seemed to add way more code than absolutely needed. Like those WYSIWYG site builders.

     

    Remove features that are outdated. That is the least they could do.

    And maybe (wishful thinking), DW might be in demand again if it became a "lighter" application.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 20, 2023

    Adobe doesn't communicate their intentions to volunteers.  And employees can't discuss it publicly because they signed NDAs.

     

    As of right now, Adobe is keeping Dreamweaver available for the benefit of older product users. But no new features are planned.  I suggest you use Dreamweaver alongside other tools that are in active development.

     

    See correct answer below for more details on how this impacts users.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/bootstrap-5/m-p/14046967#M225831

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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      Ben MCommunity Expert
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      October 20, 2023

      It is in minimal maintenance mode, but support is definitely struggling as we know that there are serious issues with the latest Mac OS updates that cause the program to repeatedly crash by right clicking. Unfortunately, at this point it doesn't mean that support is discontinued, but only serious critical issues will likely get any attention to potentially be fixed.

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        bastelboyAuthor
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        October 20, 2023

        Pleased to hear the are no plans to discontinue.  So I can renew my subscription again when its due.
        Thanks

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