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Adobe GoLive
Adobe GoLive 9 running underMac OS X
Developer	Adobe Systems
Final release	9.0 / June 1, 2007 (2007-06-01)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Mac OS X andMicrosoft Windows
Type	HTML editor
License	Proprietary
Website	adobe.com/products/golive/

Adobe GoLive was aWYSIWYGHTML editor and web site management application fromAdobe Systems. It replacedAdobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor^[1] and was itself discontinued in favor ofDreamweaver. The last version of GoLive that Adobe released was GoLive 9.

GoLive originated as the flagship product of a company named GoNet Communication, Inc. then based inMenlo Park, California,^[2] and the development company GoNet Communications GmbH inHamburg, Germany, in 1996. Later GoNet changed its name to GoLive Systems, Inc, and the name of its product toGoLive 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 aMacintosh-only application. In the spring of 1999 Adobe released Adobe GoLive for both Macintosh andMicrosoft Windows.^[3]

The first versions of Dreamweaver and CyberStudio were released in a similar timeframe. However,Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant WYSIWYG HTML editor inmarket share. After the Adobe acquisition ofMacromedia (the company that had owned Dreamweaver), GoLive was progressively re-targeted toward Adobe's traditional design market, and the product became better integrated with Adobe's existing suite of design-oriented software products and less focused on the professional web development market.

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]

GoLive incorporated a largelymodeless workflow that relied heavily ondrag-and-drop. Most user interaction was done via a contextualinspector rather than themodal workflow found inDreamweaver. Among its features were a separate editor for tables that supported nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applyingCSS styles to elements. GoLive supporteddrag-and-drop of nativeAdobe Photoshop andAdobe Illustrator files via what the company called "Smart Objects", which then automatically guided the user through saving those files in web-supported formats. Updates to the original Photoshop or Illustrator assets were automatically tracked by GoLive. It also implemented a tool called "Components" which allowed updates to interface elements throughout a site to be updated globally by changing one single file. As a website management tool, GoLive allowed users to transfer and publish content directly from within the application, and allowed individual files to be excluded from uploading.

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 GoLiveuser interface.

GoLive had a powerful set of extensibilityAPI which could be used to add additional functionality to the product. The GoLiveSDK provided interfaces which allowed developers to use a combination ofXML,JavaScript andC/C++ to create plugins for the product.^[6] The extensibility API allowed developers access to custom drawing andevent handling using JavaScript, as well as a full JavaScriptdebugger andcommand line interpreter. This allowed intermediate-level developers usinginterpretedJavaScript to create sophisticateduser interfaces.

Adobe GoLive iscoded in theC++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-livedAdobe Atmosphere 3D software.

As the final version, GoLive 9 was discontinued in April 2008.

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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
• Revive GoLive Adobe ForumArchived 2009-11-05 at theWayback Machine
• chronicles from the GoLive era

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