Features
One of the new features of GoLive version 5 was Dynamic Link, which was a method of creating dynamic, database-driven web content without the need to know a server-side language and with full WYSIWYG support in the GoLive user interface. Initially very basic and supporting only Microsoft's Active Server Pages, this feature was greatly enhanced in GoLive 6, adding support for the PHP language and several databases. Despite being technically innovative, Dynamic Link was complex to use and somewhat buggy, and Adobe chose to drop the feature from the subsequent GoLive CS release. Adobe was widely criticised for this move in the press, which also caused consternation with many GoLive users, who feared that Adobe was abandoning professional web designers.
GoLive had a powerful set of extensibility APIs which could be used to add additional functionality to the product. The GoLive SDK provided interfaces which allowed developers to use a combination of XML, JavaScript and C/C++ to create plugins for the product. Unusually, the extensibility API allowed developers access to custom drawing and event handling using JavaScript, as well as a full JavaScript debugger and command line interpreter. This allowed 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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