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Overview

The IS&T Dreamweaver 8 Product Release Team has begun testing the product for compatibility within the MIT computing environment, with the goal of establishing a support statement and making the software available to the MIT community in late Fall / early Winter.

IS&T does not recommend that MIT users upgrade to Dreamweaver 8 until the team has had a chance to fully evaluate it. Even if the software proves fit for MIT, note that the software has higher system requirements than previous versions of the product and will not work on versions of the Mac OS prior to 10.3.

Software Distribution

We will be examining the terms of our volume license agreement with Macromedia to determine a distribution strategy for Dreamweaver 8. A nominal fee will be assessed for the new version.

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Timeline

The release effort began on October 11, 2005 and is expected to complete in late fall / early winter.

News

RSS Feed from Macromedia.com

Announcements

Dreamweaver 8 Release Effort Underway Announcement
October 25, 2005
Dreamweaver 8 Release Announcement
November 17, 2005
Dreamweaver 8.0.1 Updater Available Announcement
January 17, 2006

Key Decisions

IS&T will not support the following features:

• Developing with XSLT, XML, .NET, PHP, J2EE/JSP, ASP and CFML
• Advanced template features: template parameters
• Built in image editing
• Integration with other Macromedia applications such as Contribute, Flash and Fireworks
• XPath expression builder and its resulting XSLT
• Flash elements
• Integration of RSS feeds using XML/XSLT

IS&T will provide limited support for Javascript. Supported scripts include unmodified basic behaviors found in the Behavior tab of the Tag Inspector panel group. IS does not support the JavaScript code found in the Snippets tab of the Code panel group. Additionally, JavaScript used to create a Flash detect and seamless degradation to static image, as provided by Web Communications Services, will be supported along with basic image rotation on refresh/reload. Other custom JavaScript will be supported on a case-by-case basis. Limited support for working with the custom Google search results XSLT will be provided on a case-by-case basis as well.

 

Notable Features

Notable features will be added as the release team explores each topic.

An overview of Dreamweaver 8 is available from Macromedia.

System Requirements

Below are the requirements needed in order to run Dreamweaver 8 at MIT.

• Windows
  • 800 MHz Intel Pentium(r) III processor or equivalent
  • Windows XP
  • 256 MB RAM or higher
    (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
  • 650 MB available disk space
  • 1024x768
  • 16-bit display (32-bit recommended)
• Macintosh
• 600 MHz PowerPC Mac G3 processor
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
• 256 MB RAM or higher
  (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
• 300 MB available disk space
• 1024x768
• thousands of colors (millions recommended)

For the latest IS&T hardware recommendations, see Recommended PCs and Recommended Macintosh Computers for staff and students.

Testing

Testing completed.

Known Issues

Please see the Dreamweaver 8: Known Issues page.

 

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Documentation

Existing or Planned Documentation:

Documentation Name	Previous Version (MX 2004)	Draft Ready	Ready	Assigned To
Dreamweaver 8 for Macintosh Product Page	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8 for Windows Product Page	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: New Features	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Support Statement	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Known Issues	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Set up Secure File Transfer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Cascading Style Sheets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Accessibility Tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Templates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Esther
Dreamweaver 8: Dreamweaver and Web Publishing Classes	No	Yes	Yes	Esther

Release Team

	Margaret Wong
	Product Release Coordinator
	Esther Yanow
	Documentation Writer
	Yang Gu / Bill Brids
	Tech Help Representatives
	Deb Bowser
	Quality Assurance Coordinator
	Cynthia Finney
	VSLS Distribution
	Steve Landry
	Dynamic Systems
	Stephanie Norton
	Accessibility
	Jeff Pankin
	Training

If you would like to contact the team, please send email to dreamweaver-release@mit.edu.

Meeting Minutes

• October 11, 2005
• October 19, 2005
• October 26, 2005
• November 2, 2005
• November 9, 2005
• November 16, 2005

Support

If you have a question or need assistance, please contact the Computing Help Desk at computing-help@mit.edu or x3-1101 or visit their web site for more support resources.