Adobe GoLive

Adobe GoLive

Adobe GoLive 9 running under Mac OS X
Developer(s)	Adobe Systems
Stable release	9.0 / 2007-06-01; 2 years ago
Written in	C++
Operating system	Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
Development status	Discontinued
Type	HTML editor
License	Proprietary
Website	www.adobe.com/products/golive/

Adobe GoLive is an HTML editor and web site management application from Adobe Systems. It replaced Adobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor. The latest version of Adobe GoLive is version 9, which is not integrated as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3. GoLive was discontinued in April 2008.

Adobe GoLive originated as CyberStudio, the flagship product of a company named GoLive Systems, Inc. then based in Hamburg, Germany. Adobe purchased GoLive in 1999 and re-branded the GoLive CyberStudio product to what is now Adobe GoLive. The first versions of Dreamweaver and Cyberstudio were released in a similar timeframe. However, Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant HTML editor in both market and mindshare.

Adobe CS2 Premium contains GoLive CS2. While Creative Suite 3 integrates Dreamweaver as a replacement for GoLive, Adobe released GoLive 9 as a standalone product.^[1] On April 2008, Adobe announced that sales and development of GoLive had ceased in favor of Dreamweaver.^[2]

General description and distinctive aspects

GoLive incorporates a largely modeless workflow that relies heavily on drag-and-drop. Most user interaction is done via a contextual inspector rather than the modal workflow found in Dreamweaver. Among its features are a separate editor for tables that supports nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applying CSS styles to elements. GoLive supports drag-and-drop of native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files via what the company calls "Smart Objects", which then automatically guide the user through saving those files in web-supported formats. Updates to the original Photoshop or Illustrator assets are automatically tracked by GoLive. As a web site management tool, GoLive allows users to transfer and publish content directly from within the application, and allows individual files to be excluded from uploading.

Language and framework structure

Adobe GoLive is coded in the C++ programming language^[3]. It is unusual in that instead of using a standard C++ framework such as PowerPlant or MFC, GoLive 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.

Features

GoLive has a powerful set of extensibility APIs which can be used to add additional functionality to the product. The GoLive SDK provides interfaces which allow developers to use a combination of XML, JavaScript and C/C++ to create plugins for the product.^[4] Unusually, the extensibility API allows developers access to custom drawing and event handling using JavaScript, as well as a full JavaScript debugger and command line interpreter. This allows intermediate-level developers using interpreted JavaScript to create sophisticated user interfaces, the creation of which is normally reserved for developers using compiled languages such as C.

Release History

See also

• Comparison of HTML editors
• List of HTML editors

References

1. ^ Adobe PressRoom
2. ^ Cohen, Peter (27 April 2008). ""Adobe discontinues GoLive"". Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/133181/2008/04/golivedead.html. Retrieved 28 April 2008. 
3. ^ Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ applications, 25 May 2007. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.
4. ^ Adobe GoLive SDK

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Adobe GoLive Guide

• 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
• PayPal eCommerce Extension for Adobe GoLive