Adobe® GoLive™ 5.0 New Features Overview

The following represents an overview of the top new features highlights in Adobe GoLive 5.0. For further information, please consult the Adobe GoLive User Guide, on-line Help System, and ReadMe File.

Major sections include:

• Code
• Integration
• Productivity
• Site Management
• Extensibility
• Dynamic Web site Development
• Web Standards and Emerging Web Technologies

We welcome continued user feedback and new feature ideas.
Please submit your suggestions to: golivewishlist@adobe.com

Code

Adobe GoLive 5.0 not only preserves source code and formatting, but also includes many new powerful features to give you more control of your Code.

• 360Code™ (no reformatting of code)
  GoLive 5.0 no longer reformats or parses source code (not just HTML, but any code type). Changes made in one area of a document will be limited to the selected area, leaving other areas of code untouched. This major rearchitecture of code-handling reassures that the workflow between visual designer and professional coder runs full circle as the code is no longer reformatted. NOTE: Since the Layout Grid is a custom GoLive object to facilitate page design, some parsing of code may occur in order to properly generate optimized/lean HTML table code.
  
  
• Rewrite Source Code
  GoLive 5.0 provides the option to rewrite source code based on the Web Settings defined by the user to reformat code. This new option has been added since the default setting is now to preserve code formatting via 360Code implementation.
  
  
• Simultaneous Layout/Source views
  GoLive 5.0 includes a new Source Code palette in order to view the Source Code separately while having the document window open. One can make changes in Layout as the Source Window automatically updates. When making changes in the Source Code palette itself, it will be necessary to reset the focus on the document window in order for changes to be visible in Layout View. Fly-out options are included, including Local Mode, so that the Source Code palette only displays the source code for the selected item(s).
  
  
• Optimized Layout Grid (leaner HTML code!)
  The Layout Grid HTML engine has been optimized such that row and column spans are now automatically created to dramatically reduce the amount of HTML Table code generated compared to previous versions. For pages using the Layout Grid created with previous versions of GoLive, one should change the positioning of any single element contained on the Layout Grid in order for the code to auto-optimize.
  
  
• HTML element Search and Replace
  The Find by Element search tool lets you find and replace tags and attributes on an HTML basis. The Find by Element tool is a more powerful search tool which disposes of HTML knowledge and can therefore perform search and replace processes based on HTML structure. This new feature is represented by the Element tab of the Find & Replace window. In fact, think of this element Find & Replace more like an editing feature; allowing one to specify an edit task because you can replace, delete as well as add new code elements. Once you have specified a search and replace task in the Element tab, you can save it for reuse in later sessions. You then simply have to browse the task and re-apply it to another selectionof files.
  
  
• Store HTML Snippets and Objects
  GoLive 5.0 software's site window provides a new Custom tab. The Custom tab lets you store frequently used objects for insertion into your page, while offering full drag & drop convenience.You can add commonly used images, plug-in media files as well as text snippets to the Custom tab by dragging it from the html page into the Site window. While the Custom tab of the palette accepts objects to be used globally, the Custom tab of the Site window accepts snippets to be used on a specific site.
  
  Creating Custom snippets is particularly useful for saving default objects to be used on multiple pages of your site. You can, for example, create a custom snippet for a default table to be inserted into several documents by simply dragging the table or the corresponding source code from the document window and dropping it onto the Custom tab of the Site window.
  
  The snippets you add to the Custom tab are also available in the Site Extras tab of the Objects palette (similar to stationery and components).
  
  
• Markup Tree palette
  The Markup Tree palette is an advanced-user tool for the HTML experienced scripter that helps you navigate through a document's HTML hierarchy. The Markup tree palette reflects the hierarchical tree structure and lets you easily navigate to the elements that control a selected text or object in the layout. By using the Markup Tree palette you can make much more exact selections of an HTML tag and its content than you would be able to select with the cursor in Layout View.
  
  You can draw some parallels between the Markup Tree and the HTML Outline Editor, however they differ in the following:
  -- You cannot edit elements in the Markup Tree palette.
  -- The Markup Tree palette only reflects the hierarchical structure upwards from the selected item.
  -- When you use the Markup Tree palette alongside the Layout Editor, you have both the visual layout and the hierarchical structure simultaneously; you don't have to toggle back and forth as you would between the Layout Editor and the HTML Outline Editor.
  

  As you click on an element in the Markup tree, that object is automatically selected in the document window and also in the new Source Code palette. When you use the Markup Tree palette you can select an object’s exact HTML element and its content. This is especially useful to select a specific element in a very complex and nested HTML structure. For example, a nested table with 0-borders and styles assigned to the table text. Additionally, the Markup Tree palette provides a Forward and Back button in the bottom left corner of the palette. By using this button you can go forward and back in your selection history, which saves you time when trying to select very small regions from the Layout document view (such as nested tables or tiny image map hot spots).

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Integration

Adobe GoLive 5.0 provides unrivaled integration with some of today's industry-leading design applications which translates to new levels of productivity and workflow management.

• Adobe Integration via Smart Objects and Smart Links (Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and LiveMotion™)
  When adding an image that is not in a web format, GoLive creates a sourced page element, referred to as Smart Object. A sourced element (Smart Object) consists of a reference to a file, called the source, from which GoLive generates the target image. The main difference between an image and a Smart Object is that the latter disposes of a kind of live connection to the original source file. That is, whenever the source file is modified, the Smart Object is updated automatically. For details on the tight integration and options for Photoshop (with ImageReady™), Illustrator, and LiveMotion, please consult the documentation provided with GoLive 5.0.
  
  The source file’s format remains unchanged and may be of any type that GoLive is able to read as an image. This includes PSD (specifically, RGB color mode / 8 bit per channel), BMP, PICT (Mac-only), PCX, TARGA, PIXAR, AMIGA IFF, and TIFF. The web format settings, however, are saved to the PSD source file as embedded settings. In case the source file’s format isn’t a PSD but another format that GoLive supports (see list above), the conversion and optimization settings will be saved to a separate folder which is located at the same level as the source file.
  
  The link from the target to the source file is maintained and can be regarded as a kind of live connection. When the user double-clicks on the target in GoLive, the source file opens in Photoshop. When the modification date on the source is later than the modification date on the target, GoLive will automatically update the target. The web format settings embedded in the source file will automatically be re-applied, saving the user from re-converting the Web format into a PSD when updating the target.
  
  
• Photoshop software's "Save for Web" Image Optimization Engine built-in
  The Save for Web dialog is a condensed version of ImageReady software’s basic image optimization and output features and lets you convert the exported file into a web format. The converted target image is then saved to a user-selectable location in the GoLive site folder.
  
  
• Import Photoshop as HTML
  When importing a layered Photoshop file, GoLive interprets the layers, converts them into user-specified Web formats, and saves them to a user selectable location within the site folder.
  
  The Save for Web dialog appears for each individual layer to let the user set the desired Web format. In case the file is a complex multiple-layered object, the user might want to only set the format once and then apply the same setting to all the remaining layers as well. To achieve this, press the Ctrl-key while confirming your settings in the Save for Web dialog. GoLive will then automatically apply the latest setting to the remaining layers.
  
  The Photoshop layers imported in the GoLive document are included in floating boxes. Thus you can easily change their layering and positioning by using the Floating Boxes palette, animate the floating boxes by using the DHTML time line editor, or convert the floating boxes to Layout Grid format. If you want the first layer to be imported as a background image, press the Ctrl key while choosing the appropriate Import command from the File menu. If the first layer is smaller than the page it is inserted in, the first layer will tile to fill the page. An existing background image will then be overwritten.
  
  
• Tracing Image including cut-out and optimization
  GoLive 5.0 lets you import tracing images to be used to pre-layout your Web pages. Having imported a tracing image you can cut out a desired image section, then use the Save for Web dialog to convert this section into a Web safe format, and save it to a user-selectable location within your site folder. In the document, the snippet subsequently appears as a layer included in a floating box. The user can then remove the tracing image behind the inserted snippet.
  
  
• Import Photoshop Layers as QuickTime™ Sprites
  GoLive 5.0 provides the capability for Photoshop layers to be imported and edited as individual QuickTime sprites. The great advantage of this is that you can do all your design and layout of the sprites in Photoshop (including mouseover images, and so on), then import it into the QuickTime movie, and bring it to life automatically without the need to reposition the sprites or assign the rollover behavior manually. Prerequisite for this automatism is that the layer name extensions of the Photoshop file match those defined in GoLive. For details on how to import layers as sprites, please consult the GoLive 5.0 Read Me file provided on your CD.
  

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Productivity

Adobe GoLive 5.0 introduces many new features to enhance productivity, from the consistent Adobe User Interface including History Palette and Multiple Undos to many new functional areas of improvement, spanning across the entire application.

• Adobe User Interface
  The familiar look-and-feel and consistent Adobe User Interface has been applied throughout the application, to speed productivity and ease the learning curve for those familiar with Adobe's suite of professional authoring tools. Examples include tear-off palettes, flyout menus, keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Previous owners of GoLive can also rest assured that certain unique GoLive UI characteristics were also retained per customer feedback (such as the Point and Shoot tool, and Control-key shortcut to collapse any palettes to maximize screen real estate/manage multiple palettes).
  
  
• Customizable Keyboard shortcuts
  GoLive 5.0 software provides a new Keyboard Shortcuts dialog that lets you choose between two different sets of shortcuts— the GoLive Standard Set which is enabled by default, and the Adobe Common Set. Additionally, the user can create his own sets of shortcuts.
  
  The GoLive Standard Set comprises the shortcuts that were already used in former versions of GoLive. The Adobe Common Set contains shortcuts that are typically used in other Adobe applications. You cannot overwrite the settings of the GoLive Standard and Adobe Common sets. If you want to edit the GoLive Standard or Adobe Common sets, you first have to make a copy of these sets and can then edit the copy according to your needs.
  
  
• Contextual menus
  GoLive 5.0 software includes contextual menu options throughout the application to speed productivity, including unique options not available from the pulldown menubar or palette window.
  
  
• Multiple undo
  GoLive 5.0 software, in conjunction with the History Palette, supports multiple Undos. The default setting is 20 Levels of Undo.
  
  
• History palette
  GoLive 5.0 software includes a History Palette. The History palette lets you jump to recent states of the document created in the current editing mode since it was last saved. That is, you can reverse changes made in the current editing mode by simply stepping backwards in the editing history displayed in the History palette. Each time you apply a change to a document, the new state of the document is added to the palette. However, bear in mind that the palette only lists the states or changes applied in the current mode, that is, either source mode or layout mode. Whenever you toggle between editing modes the History palette is cleared. Toggling between documents, however, doesn’t erase but adjusts the content of the History palette, respectively.
  
  
• Table palette
  GoLive 5.0 software provides a separate table editor—the Table palette. Besides easing the selection of table cells, one can also use this palette for sorting table content and applying table styles.
  
  
• Table content sorting
  The Table palette allows one to numerically and alphabetically sort table content by column or row, in descending or ascending order. You can sort a table by the content of a single column or row as well as perform a more complex sort by sorting on the contents of up to three columns or rows.
  
  
• Table styles
  You can change the appearance of your table by manually setting properties for the table and table cells or by applying a preset table design. GoLive 5.0 software comes up with a separate table editor—the Table palette, which provides a set of predefined table styles. These styles can be applied to a selected table by clicking a single button.
  
  You can even create your own individual table styles and add them to the Table palette’s styles list for multiple reuse. You just have to select the table whose styles you want to be used as a style theme and then click the “Capture” button provided in the Table Palette. The next time you are to format a table, you simply select the desired style theme from the list and click the “Apply” button. This saves you from the tedious work of manually assigning multiple format attributes again and again.
  
  
• Align palette
  Several alignment features, which have been provided by the Toolbar and the Multiselection Inspector are now assembled in one single alignment tool—the Align palette. The Align palette lets you align: objects on a layout grid, regions on images (image maps), floating boxes, tracks in the layout mode of the Movie Viewer for QuickTime, and items in the Site Design window. To bring up the Align palette, select the Align command from the Window menu.
  
  
• Transform palette
  Several transform features are assembled in one single transform tool — the Transform palette. The Transform palette is accessible via Window > Transform and lets you position, resize, group and ungroup objects, as well as change their layering. You can transform: objects on a layout grid, regions on image maps, floating boxes on a page, tracks in the layout mode of the Movie Viewer for QuickTime, items in Site Design, and map shapes on an image (image maps).
  
  
• Enhanced Floating Box Handling
  GoLive 5.0 software now supports multi selection of floating boxes. You can use the Transform and Alignment palettes to position, resize, and align floating boxes on a page. The Floating Boxes palette now provides a fly-out menu that lets you convert floating boxes into a layout grid (now optimized for leaner code generation). Using GoLive 4 software such a conversion option was only available for tables. An additional floating box grid helps you align floating boxes on a page. The settings of this auxiliary alignment grid for floating boxes are user-definable and can be specified in the Floating Box Grid Settings dialog which is also accessible via the fly-out menu of the Floating Boxes palette (formerly, “Floating Box Controller”).
  
  
• Floating Box to Layout Grid conversion
  GoLive 5.0 software now includes the ability to convert non-overlapping floating box design to be converted to the Layout Grid (now enhanced to generate leaner code), thus converting floating boxes and re-expressing the placement of items such as images, text, etc. as HTML Table code to provide compliancy with older browsers. A new document is automatically created when this conversion process takes place to preserve the original.
  
  
• Assign External CSS document to multiple pages at once
  GoLive software's companion Inspector to the Files tab of the Site window provides a new Styles tab which lets you manage external style sheets for multiple documents. You can, for example, assign / unassign a style sheet to multiple files in one go, a great time-saver.
  
  
• Import External CSS and Export internal CSS
  GoLive 5.0 software allows you to import style sheets originally defined as external styles and convert them into internal styles. Equally to this, you can export originally internal style sheets as external styles. GoLive provides a context menu with Import external CSS.../ Export internal CSS... options.
  
  
• Color palette enhancements
  The User Interface of the Color palette has changed in order to adapt to the general Adobe user interface. This has resulted in the adoption of the Adobe color sliders and the dice icons for Web save colors in the style of Photoshop. However, GoLive 5.0 has retained the different color spaces which have already been provided by the Color palette of GoLive 4. These color spaces which were formerly displayed in form of tabs will now be displayed in form of buttons.
  
  The color spaces are arranged in a different order but the functionality provided is basically the same as in GoLive 4. The Color space GoLive 4 supported only for Windows® is now also provided in the Macintosh version. In GoLive 4, the user had to choose a color in the Color palette and then drag the desired color from the preview pane to the respective color field provided in the inspector.
  
  Applying a color in GoLive 5.0 software is much easier. Selecting any color field in GoLive 5.0 establishes a temporary live connection to the color palette. The Color palette comes to the front and each setting is instantly applied to the selected color field. Thus the live connection saves you from dragging the color from the preview pane of the palette to the color field of the Inspector.

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Site Management

Adobe GoLive 5.0 brings many new features to its Site Management capabilities, which began with managing JavaScript-embedded links and external links to completely new functional areas, including Site Design and Site Reporting, and workgroup collaboration with WebDAV support.

• Optimize JavaScript Library (leaner site-wide JavaScript code!)
  The external CSScriptLib.js document can now be optimized for an entire Web site, greatly enhancing the performance of Web sites due to the reduced size of the JavaScript file that is cached on the browser client's hard drive. A new contextual menu option appears when the Files View of the Site Window is active, allowing you to "Flatten Script Library."
  
  
• Site Design
  GoLive 5.0 software provides users with powerful new tools for site design. Design elements can be dragged-and-dropped onto a design canvas to create a new site or extend an existing site. The canvas offers a high level of control:
  -- Each page added can be generic or inherit properties from a Stationary file. Each page is “live” -- content can be added, links can be created -- as soon as it is added to the design;
  -- Design elements can be adjusted using drawing tool metaphors (drag, group/ungroup, align);
  -- Annotations can be attached to elements;
  -- Pages can be grouped into a “section” of a Web site
  -- Completed designs can be “merged” back into an existing Web site. Pages are moved into place, and elements of the design that didn't previously exist are created on the fly.
  
  
• Site Reporting
  GoLive 5.0 offers users the ability to go beyond simple “Search and Replace” to search across a Web site to find files that have specific properties (size, last modified date, download time, syntax errors, empty titles, bad HTML, files containing a particular link/address/color/font/fontset/AGL component, files containing external links or links of a particular protocol, files that are "n" clicks away from another specified file); files that match these criteria are then presented in a graphical-tree view (including the new Spotlight feature to easily identify pages matching these criteria) or a detailed-list view. Once you have specified a site reporting task, you can save it for reuse in later sessions.
  
  
• Site Templates
  You can streamline site building by starting with a site template, by importing site resources for use and reuse on individual pages, and by performing key processes in batches, on a sitewide basis. You can also create your own site templates.
  
  
• Enhanced Link and Navigation Views
  GoLive 5.0 goes beyond the site map views traditionally found in site management products to offer new ways to effectively view site hierarchy and fix problems in a site. GoLive 5.0 takes the traditional Links and Navigation views and surrounds them with “panes”: the Panorama pane provides a low-magnification view that presents your entire site; select a page in the site, and the Reference pane shows the files referenced from that page; the Scratch pane shows unreachable files not referenced throughout the site -- allowing you to drag and drop any of these elements into the site hierarchy.
  
  
• Workgroup collaboration via WebDAV, including file locking, shared access, synchronization, file history
  In addition to the built-in FTP tool, GoLive 5.0 comes up with a new Web Upload & Download feature—the WebDAV tool. The WebDAV tool gives you a variety of options for accessing a WebDAV server and lets you preview and stage pages and sites before uploading them to your Web server. By supporting the WebDAV technology, GoLive 5.0 software enables Web authors to cooperatively work in a team without running the risk of causing a “lost update problem” in which modifications are lost when several authors access and attempt to edit a file at the same time.
  
  Once the new WebDAV tool is implemented it lets you: connect to a WebDAV Server (like with the FTP Module), upload/download files to/from a WebDAV server, lock/unlock files on the server (which is the key to collaborative Web authoring in a team), get meta information from the server (e.g. who has currently locked the file, what kind of lock it is), and synchronize files.
  
  In addition to the general WebDAV functionality supported, GoLive 5.0 features an even more advanced Workgroup functionality. Having enabled this workgroup functionality, the user must check out a file or selection of files from the WebDAV Server in order to edit them on the local platform. By checking out a file the user locks that file on the server and thus avoids the “lost update problem”. As long as the file is checked out the access allowed to any other user is a read-only access.
  
  You might think that this functionality is already inherent to the WebDAV server because you can lock and unlock files on the server. However, the workgroup functionality provided by GoLive goes far beyond the WebDAV approach because it automatically synchronizes the files and folders when the user checks them in or out. Additionally, if the modifications on a checked-out file have impact other files that are still checked in (and thus locally locked), GoLive will automatically check out these files as well. In the GoLive Site Settings, the user decides whether he wants to enable Workgroup Support or not. Enabling Workgroup Support only makes sense when you are cooperatively working on a site uploaded to a WebDAV server.
  
  
• WebDAV Browser
  You can use the WebDAV Browser Window to connect to a WebDAV Server. The WebDAV Browser window is accessible via File > WebDAV Browser and lets you connect to the server even when the local site is not open. You can regard it as the respective pendant to the FTP Browser formerly referred to as the FTP Upload/Download window. File lock information is also displayed in the WebDAV Browser Window. A context menu appears when you Ctrl-click (Mac) or right click (Win) a file in the WebDAV Browser window. Via this context menu you can open, rename, lock, unlock, update, and delete files.
  
  
• File naming restrictions
  Each platform has different file naming conventions. To avoid problems that may occur when uploading/downloading files to/from a server that do not match with the file naming conventions of the respective platform, GoLive 5.0 provides a set of predefined file name constraints. It also provides options that let the user edit existing file name constraints, as well as add new ones. GoLive automatically checks all files with the Publish status “Always” and “If referenced” assigned, according to these constraints. If a file name infringes the specified constraint, GoLive will indicate the file naming error at three different locations:
  -- the Filename Status column of the Site window’s Files tab,
  -- a respective folder displayed on the Site window’s Error tab
  -- the companion Inspector to the file/folder which provides a Filename tab
  
  GoLive checks the files when a file name or file name constraint is changed.
  
  
• Cross-platform site file
  The GoLive 5.0 Site File is now cross-platform and can be used by both Macintosh and Windows platforms. This greatly eases the workflow of a single site across platforms/multiple users.
  
  
• Network status window
  GoLive 5.0 provides a server log, referred to as Network Status, which is generated when uploading / downloading files to / from an FTP or WebDAV server. All operations related to the upload / download process can be logged continuously, allowing the user to keep track on his FTP / WebDAV actions. The FTP / WebDAV log is displayed in the Network Status window which is accessible via File > Network Status.
  
  To control what is displayed in the Network Status window, the user can set up Network Status Preferences. However, errors are always tracked to the Network Status. If an error occurs during the upload / download process, the Network Status window will automatically open in the front and instantly log the errors.
  
  
• Mac OS 9 Keychain support
  GoLive 5.0 supports the key chain feature provided by Mac OS 9.0. The personal key chain built in Mac OS 9.0 stores your passwords and certificates securely and lets you unlock them with a single password. Typing this single key chain password unlocks your E-mail, web and file server accounts.
  
  In the Network Preferences, the user simply specifies whether he wants to use Key Chains or not. If the user has decided to use the key chain feature and tries to connect to an FTP or WebDAV server, GoLive 5.0 will automatically check whether the required ID and password are already stored in the key chain. If they are included, GoLive will establish the connection without prompting for the respective password. If the information is not yet included, GoLive will save the ID and password you have just entered to the key chain. The next time the user tries to establish the same connection, GoLive will automatically set the password, presupposed the user’s key chain is unlocked.

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Extensibility

Adobe GoLive 5.0 is now an extensible and customizeable application. We've included some sample GoLive Extensions created via the SDK to demonstrate the power this new functionality delivers. The GoLive SDK 1.0 Release also benefits from a built-in JavaScript Editor and Debugging Application built-into GoLive, thus providing an integrated development environment when extending GoLive.

The GoLive 5.0 JavaScript API (Extend Script) offers:

• Ability to customize interface (palettes, dialogs, menus)
• Add new tags of any kind, with custom Inspectors
• Access to core functionality (HTTP, site-management, HTML)
• Built-in debugger with stepping, command line, breakpoints
• Built-in Dialog Editor/interface construction kit (made with the SDK)
• Built-in output palette, to track progress of your functions
• Dynamic re-loading of extensions and C libraries
• GoLive Extensions are cross-platform

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Dynamic Web site development

Adobe GoLive Dynamic Link for ASP provides the a seemless, integrated approach for the visual Web Designer to extend their creative efforts into the web application development environment without prerequisite programming knowledge.

• Dynamic Link for ASP enhancements, including:
• Enhanced UI for setting Form actions
• Navigation buttons for tables
• First and last record navigation
• Ability to mix Link to Details with navigation buttons
• Manual control over URL arguments
• User specified key fields

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Web standards and emerging Web technologies

Adobe GoLive 5.0 remains at the forefront of embracing the latest Web Standards and Technologies, from its robust QuickTime support to embracing the latest W3C Standards including SVG and XHTML.

• QuickTime Layout and Timeline Editor for QuickTime Streaming support
  The overall functionality of the editor for QuickTime has been extended significantly, such that the overall handling of the QuickTime editing module is vastly improved. Layout editing capabilities (scaling, rotating, skewing of tracks) and drag & drop functionality will give users the experience they know and expect.
  
  New media types / tracks supported by the QuickTime module (each of them has a respective icon included in the QuickTime tab of the Objects palette and can be inserted with Drag & Drop ease):
  -- MPEG track (MPEG video only supported for Mac OS)
  -- SWF track
  -- QuickDraw 3D track
  -- Streaming Content track: You can add streaming tracks to a movie and create your own hinted movies that deliver streaming content via a QuickTime streaming server.
  -- Picture track
  -- Enhanced Text track
  -- Folder Track: Within the Timeline Window, you can create Folder Tracks. You can group several tracks in a Folder track and by that structure your movie.
  
  New Movie menu: Offers multiple functions, such as displaying your movie window or presenting your movie. It also provides layout, text, track, and view size functions. When you want to export your movie or movie track, you can do so from the Movie menu.
  
  Toolbar: A dynamic toolbar that provides additional functions to the Movie menu. You can access the TimeLine Window; position, resize, rotate, skew, and lock tracks; make a movie streamable; and change the layering position of a track.
  
  Multiple Undo: The multiple undo function is fully implemented in the interactive QuickTime editing environment.
  
  Movie Viewer: The Movie Viewer window now contains Preview and Layout tabs. The Layout tab lets you edit the visual movie components similarly to the way you edit objects in the document window's layout mode. You can position, resize, skew, and rotate the movie tracks using the toolbar buttons; as well as transform and align tracks using the Transform and Align palettes, respectively.
  
  Timeline window: The Timeline window, referred to as Track Editor in previous versions, has been redesigned for easier use and has added tools to help you create and edit samples for your tracks. The sample tools include Inspect/Move/Copy, Create, Divide, Glue, and Delete Sample. Multiple sample selection opens the new Multiple Sample Inspector, and multiple track selection opens the new Multiple Track Inspector. You can now change the duration of a sample by resizing the respective sample duration bar, and you can set a selection range using sliders.
  
  Changing track order: By dragging individual tracks within the Timeline window, you can change their track order and by that their layering in the Movie Viewer. The tracks are reversed in order—the lower the track in the track list, the higher its order in the movie.
  
  Specifying a working area: In the Timeline window, you can select a working area and apply a specific function (e.g. loop) to only this area.
  
  Adding external media by Copy & Paste / Drag & Drop: You can insert external media by simply dragging or copying a track from one Timeline window, and dropping or pasting it into another Timeline window.
  
  Importing Adobe Photoshop layers as sprites: You can now import Adobe Photoshop layers in one file and have those layers converted into sprites. With minimal setup in the Adobe Photoshop file, the layers are imported with mouse cursor actions activated.
  
  Easier to create rollover effects through behavior buttons in Sprite Sample Inspector.
  
  
• SWF, QuickTime, RealNetworks® G2, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) plug-in support
  GoLive 5.0 provides specific placeholders for SWF, QuickTime, Real, and SVG plug-ins. The individual plug-in placeholders basically serve the same purpose as the general plug-in placeholder but have several embed attributes already predefined in their companion Inspector. These predefined embed properties enable a faster and easier configuration of plug-in content. You can edit imported QuickTime movies by opening them in the Movie Viewer.
  
  
• WebObjects 4.5 support
  WebObjects support within GoLive 5.0 has been updated to WebObjects version 4.5. Please note that the WebObjects module is not included with Educational Versions of this product. The WebObjects module must be activated via Preferences:Modules Manager in order for the WebObjects tab and related features to become active in the application.
  
  
• Object Element support (as defined by W3C)
  GoLive 5.0 includes the Objects element tag as defined by the W3C.
  
  
• Auto-conversion of HTML documents to XHTML syntax (as defined by W3C)
  GoLive 5.0 supports XHTML markup language, including the ability to convert an html document to XHTML format. To accomplish this task, simply select “Save As...” and rename the corresponding html filename extension to “.xhtml”. Note when reopening this document and inspecting the source code, the xhtml markup syntax is automatically applied in creating a valid XHTML document.

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