Expression Web
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Expression Web 4 running on Windows 8
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | December 4, 2006 |
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4 (4.0.1460.0) / December 20, 2012
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| Operating system | Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 |
| Platform | IA-32;DirectX, .NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight v4 |
| Available in | English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish |
| Type | HTML editor |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | microsoft |
Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is an HTML editor and general web design software product by Microsoft. It is available free of charge from Microsoft and is a component of the discontinued Expression Studio.
Expression Web can design and develop web pages using HTML5, CSS 3, ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript, XML+XSLT and XHTML. Expression Web 4 requires .NET Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 to install and run. Expression Web uses its own standards-based rendering engine which is different from Internet Explorer's Trident engine.
On May 14, 2006, Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of Expression Web. On September 5, 2006, Microsoft released Beta 1. Beta 1 removed most of the FrontPage-proprietary (non-standard) features such as bots (use of FPSE features for server-side scripting), parts, functions, themes, automatic generation of navigation buttons, FrontPage forms, navigation pane to build a web site's hierarchy, and other non-standard features available in CTP 1. The Release To Manufacturing version was made available on December 4, 2006. The first and the only service pack was published in December 2007. Expression Web does not have the form validation controls for HTML fields like FrontPage, but supports validator controls for ASP.NET.
Microsoft Expression Web 2 was released in 2008. Expression Web 2 offers native support for PHP and Silverlight. No service packs have been released for version 2.
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