{"slug": "dreamweaver", "name": "Dreamweaver", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 11, "warners": 1, "score": 2.916, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-07", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 8, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "adobe.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Dreamweaver"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 772701488, "item_id": 48293843, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293843", "by": "apothegm", "date": "2026-05-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.", "excerpt": "Dreamweaver. No, hear me out. Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage). But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings. And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I\u2019ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utte", "context": "", "use_case": "writing PHP and editing HTML", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What old developer tool do you still miss?"}, {"id": 738894768, "item_id": 46180923, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180923", "by": "msephton", "date": "2025-12-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Judicious and careful use of Dreamweaver", "excerpt": "Judicious and careful use of Dreamweaver (its visual editor and properties bar) enabled me to write exactly the code I wanted. I used Dreamweaver foot table layouts and Home Site (later Top Style) for broader code edits. At that time I was famous with the company for being able to make any layout. Good times!", "context": "", "use_case": "HTML layout editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using LLMs at Oxide"}, {"id": 738879664, "item_id": 46179979, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179979", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2025-12-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.", "excerpt": "I love how people speak about Dreamweaver in the past, while Adobe keeps getting money for it, https://developer.adobe.com/dreamweaver/ And yes, as you can imagine for the kind of comments I do regarding high level productive tooling and languages, I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using LLMs at Oxide"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 756183664, "item_id": 47261479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261479", "by": "chriswarbo", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "think of (X)HTML generated by Dreamweaver or FrontPage", "excerpt": "I think XML fit well into the turn-of-the-millenium zeitgeist: GUIs would hide the verbosity; the proliferation of bespoke tags would map cleanly to OOP representations; middleware could manipulate and transform data generically, allowing anything to plug into anything else (even over the Internet!). Whilst lots of impressive things were built, the overall dream was always just out of reach. Domain-specific tooling i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Relax NG is a schema language for XML"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["writing php and editing html", "web authoring", "web page editing", "html layout editing", "web development"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347", "title": "Using LLMs at Oxide", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055", "title": "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034534", "title": "Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290787", "title": "Ask HN: What old developer tool do you still miss?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258076", "title": "Relax NG is a schema language for XML", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990", "title": "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 804008240, "item_id": 50250515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250515", "by": "suzzer99", "date": "2026-10-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Marvel at the Dreamweaver-enabled design", "excerpt": "I helped develop a web app used by major drug companies in 2001 that's still in use as far as I can tell. Marvel at the Dreamweaver-enabled design: https://resultview.q2labsolutions.com/resultview/logon/logon.jsp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"}, {"id": 785343664, "item_id": 49083979, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083979", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2026-07-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You can still get Dreamweaver today.", "excerpt": "You can still get Dreamweaver today. :) https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms"}, {"id": 772701488, "item_id": 48293843, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293843", "by": "apothegm", "date": "2026-05-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.", "excerpt": "Dreamweaver. No, hear me out. Yes, the WYSIWYG was WYSIWYG, so it produced mediocre markup (tho eons better than FrontPage). But the code view was solid. You could use it to write PHP with syntax highlighting and then switch to WYSIWYG view for editing copy and doing light formatting like bold/italics/headings. And Dreamweaver had a DOM-based HTML search/replace that I\u2019ve never seen the like of elsewhere. It was utte", "context": "", "use_case": "writing PHP and editing HTML", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What old developer tool do you still miss?"}, {"id": 756183664, "item_id": 47261479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261479", "by": "chriswarbo", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "think of (X)HTML generated by Dreamweaver or FrontPage", "excerpt": "I think XML fit well into the turn-of-the-millenium zeitgeist: GUIs would hide the verbosity; the proliferation of bespoke tags would map cleanly to OOP representations; middleware could manipulate and transform data generically, allowing anything to plug into anything else (even over the Internet!). Whilst lots of impressive things were built, the overall dream was always just out of reach. Domain-specific tooling i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Relax NG is a schema language for XML"}, {"id": 747601488, "item_id": 46725093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725093", "by": "bergen", "date": "2026-01-22", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "never thought that Dreamweaver would still be around, I used that somewhere around 2003", "excerpt": "You just opened a huge nostalgia portal, never thought that Dreamweaver would still be around, I used that somewhere around 2003 I believe. Good memories", "context": "", "use_case": "Web authoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"}, {"id": 744175456, "item_id": 46510966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510966", "by": "jsheard", "date": "2026-01-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I need everyone to know I use Dreamweaver.", "excerpt": "I miss those 350x19 \"userbar\" images that people used to stack in their forum signatures. Can we get those on HN? I need everyone to know I use Dreamweaver.", "context": "", "use_case": "web page editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "GBC Boot Animation 88\u00d731 Web Button"}, {"id": 742819888, "item_id": 46426243, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426243", "by": "skydhash", "date": "2025-12-29", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Wasn't that Dreamweaver?", "excerpt": "> So if you're banging out the same type of thing over and over again, yes, they will make that work light and then scarce. The same thing over and over again should be a SaaS, some internal tool, or a plugin. Computers are good at doing the same thing over and over again and that's what we've been using them for > But if you need to create something niche, something one-off, something new, they'll slip off the bleed", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers"}, {"id": 741498880, "item_id": 46343680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343680", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2025-12-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "many aren't aware it is still around", "excerpt": "Same with Dreamweaver, many aren't aware it is still around. https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "TailwindSQL \u2013 Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"}, {"id": 741027536, "item_id": 46314221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314221", "by": "oblio", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Nope, it was solved with Visual Basic in 1991. And with Nextstep in 1989. And with... I really dislike people comparing GenAI with compilers. Compilers largely do mechanic transformations, they do almost 0 logic changes (and if they do, they're bugs). We are in an industry that's great at throwing (developing) and really bad at catching (QA) and we've just invented the machine gun. For some reason people expect the m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7\u00d7 more bugs"}, {"id": 739655953, "item_id": 46228497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228497", "by": "savolai", "date": "2025-12-10", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "oh wow dreamweaver still exists. Any of you have experience? Still good?", "excerpt": "This felt relieving. As in: some part of me had felt stupid for thinking some of this seems really unintuitive when using it in practice. Like z-index stuff, margins, vertical-align, border-radius, ... Meanwhile, one of the linked pages mentioned bluegriffon, so I got curious if such editors can handle template languages such as django's. While I don't know that yet (edit:no templates at all, what a shame), I also fo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"}, {"id": 738894768, "item_id": 46180923, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180923", "by": "msephton", "date": "2025-12-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Judicious and careful use of Dreamweaver", "excerpt": "Judicious and careful use of Dreamweaver (its visual editor and properties bar) enabled me to write exactly the code I wanted. I used Dreamweaver foot table layouts and Home Site (later Top Style) for broader code edits. At that time I was famous with the company for being able to make any layout. Good times!", "context": "", "use_case": "HTML layout editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using LLMs at Oxide"}, {"id": 738879664, "item_id": 46179979, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179979", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2025-12-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.", "excerpt": "I love how people speak about Dreamweaver in the past, while Adobe keeps getting money for it, https://developer.adobe.com/dreamweaver/ And yes, as you can imagine for the kind of comments I do regarding high level productive tooling and languages, I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using LLMs at Oxide"}, {"id": 733636160, "item_id": 45852260, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852260", "by": "BoorishBears", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "You can though with some creativity. There are lots of tools that give a wrong solution that appears correct, and easier ones tend to do that the most. Plenty of people who needed a real dev team to design an application probably hoped on Dreamweaver, were suddenly able to bumble their way some interface that looked impressive but would never scale (even to the original goal level of scale mind you). - Any time you h", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service"}]}