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21-504: On March 16, 2002, Macromedia released Flash Player 6. This version included all the functionality for a yet to be released server called Flash Communication Server MX. Version 1.0 was released on 9 July 2002 and included all the basic features that make up the product, including the NetConnection, SharedObject and NetStream objects. Version 1.5 was released on 27 March 2003 giving the server HTTP Tunneling , Linux support and

42-566: A stock swap valued at approximately $ 3.4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement. The acquisition took place on December 3, 2005, and Adobe integrated the company's operations, networks, and customer care organizations shortly thereafter. On August 22, 1997, stockholders filed a class-action lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco, accusing Macromedia of misleading stockholders on

63-404: A Web application platform, adding scripting and data access capabilities to the player while attempting to retain its small footprint. In December 1999, Macromedia acquired traffic analysis software company Andromedia Corporation. Web development company Allaire was acquired in 2001 and Macromedia added several popular servers and Web developments tools to its portfolio, including ColdFusion ,

84-835: A free developer edition. Version 2.0 was released on November 15, 2005. The server was renamed to Flash Media Server for this build to better illustrate what the server does; however, the version numbers were not reset. Version 2.0 brought support to stream the new video codec in Flash Player 8, On2’s VP6 . However the Flash Player (as of version 10.1) can still only encode to the Spark codec. Version 2.0 also introduced edge-origin servers, an optional enterprise architecture that simplifies load balancing. The server side Actionscript runtime also received updates with support for XML , XMLSocket , SOAP and File operations. Version 3.0

105-825: A merger with Altsys' business partner, the Aldus Corporation . Altsys was the developer of the vector-drawing program FreeHand , which had been licensed by Aldus for marketing and sales. Because of the similarities with Adobe Illustrator , the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint in October 1994 ordering the divestiture of FreeHand back to Altsys. With Macromedia's acquisition of Altsys, it received FreeHand thus expanding its product line of multimedia graphics software to include illustration and design graphics software. FreeHand's vector graphics rendering engine and other software components within

126-683: A strong competitor among amateur and business users. Macromedia acquired FutureWave Software , makers of FutureSplash Animator , in November 1996. FutureSplash Animator was an animation tool originally developed for pen-based computing devices. Because of the small size of the FutureSplash Viewer application, it was particularly suited for download over the Internet, where most users, at the time, had low-bandwidth connections. Macromedia renamed Splash to Macromedia Flash , and following

147-618: A university research medium to a commercial network, Macromedia began working to web-enable its existing tools and develop new products like Dreamweaver . Macromedia created Shockwave , a Director-viewer plugin for web browsers. The first multimedia playback in Netscape's browser was a Director plug-in. Macromedia licensed Sun's Java Programming Language in October 1995. By 2002, Macromedia had produced more than 20 products and had 30 offices in 13 countries. In January 1995, Macromedia acquired Altsys Corporation after Adobe Systems announced

168-677: A web application server based on the CFML language, JRun , a Java EE application server, and HomeSite , an HTML code editor that was also bundled with Dreamweaver. In 2003, Macromedia acquired the web conferencing company Presedia and continued to develop and enhance their Flash-based online collaboration and presentation product offering under the brand Breeze . Later that year, Macromedia also acquired help authoring software company eHelp Corporation , whose products included RoboHelp and RoboDemo (now Adobe Captivate ). On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in

189-768: Is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe . It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the macOS and Windows operating systems . Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have improved support for Web technologies such as CSS , JavaScript , and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion , Scriptlet , and PHP . Adobe Dreamweaver CC

210-474: Is a web design Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is used to develop and design websites. Dreamweaver includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting , code completion , real-time syntax checking , and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in writing code. Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors , edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP , SFTP , or WebDAV . Dreamweaver CS4 supports

231-759: The Subversion (SVN) version control system. Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages: Support for Active Server Pages (ASP) and JavaServer Pages was dropped in version CS5. Users can add their language syntax highlighting. Code completion is available for many of these languages. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is available in Brazilian Portuguese , Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features

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252-421: The 1992 merger of Authorware Inc. (makers of Authorware ) and MacroMind–Paracomp (makers of Macromind Director ). Director , an interactive multimedia-authoring tool used to make presentations, animations, CD-ROMs and information kiosks, served as Macromedia's flagship product until the mid-1990s. Authorware was Macromedia's principal product in the interactive learning market. As the Internet moved from

273-494: The NetConnection using the Action Message Format (AMF) which is handled transparently by the server and flash client. The server also allows users to receive and publish net streams. When viewing a net stream the user can either create their own to view a remotely stored Flash Video HTML5 (FLV) or the server can instantiate a net stream and play a video on it, the latter method means that every user will be at

294-652: The company's product success and financial health. A similar suit had been filed a month earlier. The class-action suit was dismissed by a federal judge on May 19, 1998. On August 10, 2000, Adobe claimed that Macromedia violated two of its patents on tabbed palettes. Macromedia countered with a claim that Adobe infringed on Macromedia's patents for a draw-based editor for Web pages and a hierarchical structure editor for Web sites. In July 2002, Adobe and Macromedia reached an agreement that settled all claims in this series of patent suits. Eventually, Adobe acquired Macromedia 3 years later. Dreamweaver Adobe Dreamweaver

315-421: The connected users with live web FLV or HTML5 player installed. Connected clients can make Remote procedure calls (RPC) on the server-side and the server can call methods on specific clients. A SharedObject can be used to synchronize complicated data structures and call remote methods on multiple clients in one go by having clients subscribe to a shared object. Standard ActionScript objects are transported across

336-406: The lead of Netscape , distributed the Flash Player as a free browser plugin in order to quickly gain market share. As of 2005, more computers worldwide had the Flash Player installed than any other Web media format, including Java , QuickTime , RealNetworks , and Windows Media Player . As Flash matured, Macromedia's focus shifted from marketing it as a graphics and media tool to promoting it as

357-599: The program would prove useful to Macromedia in the development of Fireworks . In March 1996, Macromedia acquired iBand Software, makers of the Backstage HTML authoring tool and application server. Macromedia developed a new HTML -authoring tool, Dreamweaver , around portions of the Backstage codebase and released the first version in 1997. At the time, most professional web authors preferred to code HTML by hand using text editors because they wanted full control over

378-492: The same point in the video when they subscribe to it as they are all viewing the same stream. Macromedia Macromedia, Inc. , was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company (1992–2005) headquartered in San Francisco , California , that made products such as Flash and Dreamweaver . It was purchased by its rival Adobe Systems on December 3, 2005. Macromedia originated with

399-400: The source. Dreamweaver addressed this with its "Roundtrip HTML" feature, which attempted to preserve the fidelity of hand-edited source code during visual edits, allowing users to work back and forth between visual and code editing. Over the next few years Dreamweaver became widely adopted among professional web authors, though many still preferred to hand-code, and Microsoft FrontPage remained

420-495: Was released on December 4, 2007. Version 3.5 was released on January 13, 2009. It also includes a free "development" server. Version 4.0 was released on September 13, 2010 and introduced full 64-bit support, more secure multiprotocol streaming, IP multicast broadcast, multicast fusion, peer-assisted networking, enhanced buffer, absolute timecode, RTMP QoS improvements, simplified player development, faster switching with RTMP Dynamic Streaming and integrated HTTP server. Version 5.0

441-429: Was released on October 8, 2012. In February 2019, Adobe Systems Incorporated granted Veriskope Inc rights to further develop, resell, and extend distribution of the software product. Version 5.0.16 was released on March 1, 2020 by Veriskope. Adobe Media Server is a hub. Flash/HTML5 video based applications connect to the hub using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The server can send and receive data to and from

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