daringfireball.net — "What Xcode is to app development and what Dashcode is to widget development ? that?s what Coda is to web development. Replace Coda?s (lovely) green leaf icon with some sort of blueprint-with-a-tool-on-top and it?d be easy to convince someone that it?s ?Webcode?, a new app from Apple itself."
Apr 24, 2007 View in Crawl 4
san1tyApr 25, 2007
Sounds like a diggvertisment to me...
meatmcguffinApr 25, 2007
No PHP previewing :(
jer2eydevil88Apr 25, 2007
Having played with Dreamweaver CS3 heavily for the past week I can safely say that it is the finest installment of the software ever and it offers a giant leap ahead in rendering from its previous installment. Coda may be a lot of things but its a first generation software title, Dreamweaver (formerly by Macromedia and now Adobe) has had a long and illustrious history with 3rd party plugins. I don't forsee anything taking its dominant position as market leader, yet as an inexpensive full featured alternative I do see Coda having a real impact in the private use/personal market...
rebotfcApr 25, 2007
jer2eydevil88, can you say shill?
doubleforteApr 25, 2007
What I've been wanting is TextMate + FTP. The only reason I use Dreamweaver is because it keeps track of local/remote connections, code-view does an alright job with code hints and syntax highlights, and it's all in the same app (the WYSIWYG is just bloat). DW takes forever to launch and palettes floating everywhere constantly get in the way. Find/Replace is powerful (I suck at regex), but clunky.Coda is perfect for me because it's what I use Dreamweaver for...text-edit + FTP. It's way cheaper, way faster, and way prettier (and the built in reference...genius).I'll still use a separate browser (cuz I need to test in Safari, FF, IE...I know, I know...IE sucks, but I still have to test in it). I'm not much of a terminal guy, though I use the Mac OS X Terminal app occasionally. I tend to edit CSS by hand, mostly to be able to add IE hacks. So many of Codas features are lost on me. But I'm not using as a a terminal app or a browser. Text-edit + FTP. (Yeah, I know Transmit has a text editor...but if you've used it you'd know why that's not really an option!)I've described Coda to my friends as "Dreamweaver without the suck."It's not a replacement for TextMate/Transmit/Terminal/CSSedit/Safari, I'll keep those around for when I need them. I just don't need all their features all the time. The only thing I see this as a replacement for is Dreamweaver, and I'm happy to see BGO (big green orb) vanish from my Dock.There are a few oddities, I've submitted my feedback to Panic, but it's only version 1. Coda 1.1 will be 100% better, and it's already a 9/10 for me.
dscxApr 25, 2007
it's powered by subethaedit which is pretty good anyway!
doubleforteApr 25, 2007
Oh. I see how you could mis-interpret my comment. I was saying that I'll use Coda for hand-editing CSS - the feature I won't use much is the super-slick built-in editor. But that's just my preference. (Also, it chokes on some of the hacks...after all, they are hacks and shouldn't really exist in the first place.)Coda rocks. Coda/Firefox for President in 2008!
osageApr 25, 2007
Froze after 5 seconds.... this APP $%^&*()
elliotlarsonApr 25, 2007
Coda looks really polished, but I fell like TextMate has completely nailed it for the hand coder. I can script all of my HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and SQL in one editor, and with the bundles available for each... I've never been more productive. For the visual developer, Dreamweaver has pretty much nailed it (except for the price). I'm sure Coda's lower price will attract a user base, but I wish a company like this would address the serious lack of quality MySQL tools available for the Mac instead of coming out with another HTML editor. CocoaMySQL is a great free tool, but something more polished would be great!