DW looks like abandonware.

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November 17, 2024
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Is Dreamweaver discontinued or abandoned?

I do not see true updates since years ago.

It does not support Bootstrap 5, it uses old JQery versions...

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MichiganJim

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It's truly maddening to be paying a monthly subscription for the Creative Cloud when this is the only piece of it that I want or use. It was a good product but gets buggier and buggier with every OS update. Via our subscriptions we're rewarding Adobe for nothing on this one, just being played.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

It was a good product but gets buggier and buggier with every OS update.
By @MichiganJim

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What bugs? Are they reproducible on other sites or machines?

I ask because latest DW (21.4) is very stable for me on Win11 with latest updates.

I work with defined local site folders that reside on my primary hard drive. Whenever possible, I endeavor to work with clean, error-free code. Frontend: Bootstrap; Backend: PHP & MySQL.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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MichiganJim

Participant

I work with Macs. A couple of the most frustrating Dreamweaver bugs have been around for some time without attention.

Dreamweaver can't maintain the Workspace Layout if I switch to another app and come back. Sometimes pallets go missing or switch places. Constantly, the main window gets resized and the top may end up under the menu bar where I can't access it in order to pull it back down where it had been seconds before. As a developer of cgi apps, I go back and forth a lot so this is a major nuisance.

Another long-term bug is its inability to work well with the clipboard to copy and paste with other apps. Going either way with copied text, I've had to use the Mac text editor as an intermediate stop. I paste the clipboard contents there, then copy them again and move on to paste them either into Dreamweaver or the other app. This has proven to be the case with numerous other apps, but not all.

Without detailing them all, there are other times it just gets glitchy and I have to quit and restart Dreamweaver.

An Adobe customer since 1985, I've been through PageMill, GoLive, then Dreamweaver with MacroMedia, then with Dreamweaver back to Adobe. And I'm mad that Adobe now expects me to keep paying every month for a Creative Cloud subscription solely to use one piece of software they've set adrift.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

DW still works as a code editor. But depending on what all you do, you might need tools that are in active development to use alongside Dreamweaver.

See my post below for more details.

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

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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osgood_

Legend

Dreamweaver is in minimal maintenance mode these days ie its only getting bug, Os fixes etc. Don't expect any updates which involve more up to date versions of 3rd party frameworks/libraries or any more modern techniques that are currently being used.

According to what you need/require or what your expectations of a bit of software should be it might be that you investigate other options if you which to progress. beyond what it currently has to offer.

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