Wednesday, May 30, 2007

I have been using Coda for a few days now and it's really growing on me. First of all I have to add that my usual setup is Textmate/skEdit for html/php and CSSEdit for you guessed itl... CSS! Now I'm not going to say I'm immediately dropping everything and switching to Coda but so far it's looking very promising. The site management is better than any other editor due to their expertise in the field with Transmit, this is a big incentive, secondly it works really well as an html editor an area where Textmate really falls down, the autocompletion is excellent (that goes for when you are in php syntax mode too!) and by highlighting a tag, function or whatever and hitting a quick keyboard shortcut you are taken to the relevant entry in the corresponding reference book which opens in a new tab. Very nice.

The only thing I haven't played with yet is the CSS editor and I have to admit I love CSSEdit so I'm not sure I'll make the switch just yet but I have to admit it looks pretty good and having everything in one application like my old Dreamweaver days does seem quite enticing!

The development is obviously ongoing and I think in time this will become the standard Mac editor for web development I recently emailed the team with a feature request and have already had a response saying they are already working on it, I think this is defintely an application that I will be buying once the trial is up!

Jon 8:50 AM Permalink