Indicates feature has been improvedDreamweaver 8 continues to build upon prior releases. This chart compares version 8 new features and enhancements to prior existing features.
| Dreamweaver 8 | Dreamweaver MX 2004 | |
|---|---|---|
| Work with Best Practices | ||
| Visual authoring with XML data | yes | no |
| Unified CSS panel | yes | no |
| CSS layout visualization | yes | no |
| Style rendering toolbar | yes | no |
| XML Editing and Validation | yes plus | yes |
| Rendering of CSS-based designs | yes plus | yes |
| Integrated Accessibility Site Reporting for Priority 1, Section 508 | yes plus | yes |
| Accessibility: Support for WCAG/W3C priority 2 checkpoints | yes | no |
| Integrated Accessibility References | yes plus | yes |
| Pre-Built Page Accessible Page Designs and Templates | yes plus | yes |
| Dynamic cross-browser validation | yes plus | yes |
| Support for authoring mobile content | yes plus | yes |
| Define Page Styles with CSS | yes | yes |
| Get More Done | ||
| Zoom | yes | no |
| Guides | yes | no |
| Coding toolbar | yes | no |
| Code collapse | yes | no |
| Site relative references | yes | no |
| Workspace layouts | yes | no |
| Tabbed documents for the Macintosh | yes | no |
| Background file transfer | yes | no |
| Compare files | yes | no |
| Code Hints for HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, XML, XSL, JavaScript | yes plus | yes |
| Code editing improvements | yes plus | yes |
| Open, documented API | yes plus | yes |
| File locking with Check In and Check Out | yes plus | yes |
| WebDAV support | yes plus | yes |
| Copy and paste text from Microsoft Word and Excel | yes | yes |
| Centralized access to re-usable code snippets | yes | yes |
| Integrated image editing toolbar | yes | yes |
| Templates for easy reuse of design | yes | yes |
| Integrates with the Latest Technologies and Standards | ||
| Flash Video | yes | no |
| Integration with Contribute and the Macromedia Web Publishing System: notification and event logging | yes plus | yes |
| Support for PHP 4 | yes | yes |
| Support for PHP 5 | yes | yes |
| Support for ColdFusion MX | yes | yes |
| Support for ColdFusion MX 7 | yes | yes |
| Support for ASP, ASP.NET and JSP | yes | yes |
| Reference content for: HTML, CSS, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, XML, XSLT, JavaScript | yes plus | yes |
| Live Data View | yes | yes |
Indicates feature has been improved
