Adobe GoLive
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Adobe Systems | |
Final release | 9.0
/ June 1, 2007 |
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Written in | Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows |
Type | HTML editor |
License | Proprietary |
Website | adobe |
Adobe GoLive was a
History
GoLive originated as the flagship product of a company named GoNet Communication, Inc. then based in Menlo Park, California,[2] and the development company GoNet Communications GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, in 1996. Later GoNet changed its name to GoLive Systems, Inc, and the name of its product to GoLive CyberStudio. Adobe acquired GoLive in 1999 and re-branded the GoLive CyberStudio product to what became Adobe GoLive.[1] Adobe took over the Hamburg office as an Adobe development site to continue to develop the product.
At the time of the acquisition, CyberStudio was a Macintosh only application. In the spring of 1999 Adobe released Adobe GoLive for both Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.[3]
The first versions of Dreamweaver and CyberStudio were released in a similar timeframe. However,
The Adobe CS2 Premium suite contained GoLive CS2. With the release of Creative Suite 3, Adobe integrated Dreamweaver as a replacement for GoLive and released GoLive 9 as a standalone product.[4]
In April 2008, Adobe announced that sales and development of GoLive would cease in favor of Dreamweaver.[5]
General description and distinctive aspects
GoLive incorporated a largely
Features
One of the new features of GoLive version 5 was Dynamic Link, which was a method of creating dynamic, database-driven web content without the need to know a server-side language and with full WYSIWYG support in the GoLive user interface.
GoLive had a powerful set of extensibility
Language and framework structure
Adobe GoLive is coded in the C++ programming language.[7] It uses a custom C++ framework called SCL (Simple Class Library) which was initially built from scratch by the engineers at GoLive Systems Inc. The SCL framework was also used in the short-lived Adobe Atmosphere 3D software.
Release history
Version | Code Name | Supported Platforms | Release Date |
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GoLive 1.0 | Classic Mac OS | June 1996 | |
GoLive 1.1 Pro | Classic Mac OS | August 1996 | |
GoLive CyberStudio 1 | Classic Mac OS | April 1997 | |
GoLive CyberStudio 2 | Classic Mac OS | September 1997 | |
GoLive CyberStudio 3 | Classic Mac OS | April 1998 | |
Adobe GoLive 4 | Classic Mac OS | January 1999 | |
Adobe GoLive 4 | Microsoft Windows | May 1999 | |
Adobe GoLive 5 | The Fifth Element | Classic Mac OS, Microsoft Windows | August 2000 |
Adobe GoLive 6 | The 6th Day | Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | February 2002 |
Adobe GoLive 7 CS | Se7en | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | October 2003 |
Adobe GoLive 8 CS2 | Reloaded | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | April 2005 |
Adobe GoLive 9 | Vicious | Universal Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | June 2007 |
As the final version, GoLive 9 was discontinued in April 2008.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-321-11564-3.
- ^ Brookshaw, Chip (22 July 1996). "golive, young man: Web editor make the cut". InfoWorld. Vol. 18, no. 30. p. IW/6.
- ^ Pfiffner 2003, pp. 213–214.
- ^ "New Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Enhances Adobe Creative Suite 2.3". Adobe PressRoom. Archived from the original on 2007-03-23.
- ^ Cohen, Peter (27 April 2008). "Adobe discontinues GoLive". Macworld. Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
- ^ "Adobe GoLive SDK". Archived from the original on August 4, 2010.
- ^ Stroustrup, Bjarne (25 May 2007). "C++ applications". Retrieved 19 June 2007.
External links
- Adobe GoLive homepage
- OReilly Article with GoLive History
- mprove: Adobe GoLive’s Point & Shoot - an interface technique for creating hyperlinks
- Adobe GoLive Tutorials & Resource Site
- GoLive CS2 Tutorials and Reference
- GoLiveCentral - Tutorials & Resources
- Revive GoLive Adobe Forum
- chronicles from the GoLive era