Adobe GoLive was 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. It 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 Adobe Dreamweaver and Cyberstudio were released in a similar timeframe. However, Adobe Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant HTML editor in both market and mindshare.
Adobe CS2 Premium contains Adobe GoLive CS2. While Creative Suite 3 integrates Adobe Dreamweaver as a replacement for Adobe GoLive , Adobe has released Adobe GoLive 9 as a standalone product. On April 2008, Adobe announced that sales and development of Adobe GoLive had ceased in favor of Adobe Dreamweaver .
Adobe 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 Adobe Dreamweaver. 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, Adobe 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 Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator assets are automatically tracked by Adobe GoLive. As a web site management tool, Adobe 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. It is unusual in that instead of using a standard C++ framework such as PowerPlant or MFC, Adobe 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 Adobe GoLive but was also used in the short-lived Adobe Atmosphere 3D software.
Adobe GoLive has a powerful set of extensibility APIs which can be used to add additional functionality to the product. The Adobe GoLive SDK provides interfaces which allow developers to use a combination of XML, JavaScript and C/C++ to create plugins for the product. 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.
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