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Adobe GoLive
Adobe GoLive 9 running under Mac OS X
Developer	Adobe Systems
Latest release	9.0 / June 2007
OS	Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Genre	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.

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, possibly because Dreamweaver was available on the dominant Microsoft Windows platform whereas Cyberstudio was Mac-only until the release of GoLive 4 in 1999 by Adobe, Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant HTML editor in both market and mindshare.

Adobe CS2.3 Premium contains both GoLive CS2 and Dreamweaver 8. While Creative Suite 3 integrates Dreamweaver as a replacement for GoLive, Adobe has released GoLive 9 as a standalone product.^[1]The GoLive homepage does not indicate that Adobe is abandoning the product, but does encourage users to switch to Dreamweaver.

GoLive is praised by its users for its largely modeless workflow where most interaction is via a contextual inspector rather than via modal dialogs. Many users find this preferable to the heavily modal workflow of Dreamweaver. GoLive also relies heavily on drag-and-drop, perhaps due to its roots in the Mac operating system environment where this usage pattern is common. Among its features are a separate editor for tables that supports nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applying CSS styles to elements. Testament to Adobe's commitment to interoperability among its applications, 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.

Adobe GoLive is coded in the C++ programming language^[2]. 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 which was initially built from scratch by the engineers at GoLive Systems Inc. The SCL framework is currently used exclusively by GoLive but was also used in the short-lived Adobe Atmosphere 3D software.

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.^[3] 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.

1. ^ Adobe PressRoom
2. ^ Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ applications, 2007-05-25. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
3. ^ Adobe GoLive SDK

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