Mac HTML Editors Redux
A new post by Eric at his HTML Editor review site brings news of a new Mac app called Coda. It looks pretty nice—a built-in Transmit sidebar means that there won’t be any skimping on editing over FTP—but I’ll need to take the demo for a trial run before I can say for sure.
I bought SKEdit a while back, but have had problems where changes are not saved via FTP. I sometimes have to close the file, disconnect and then go back before it would take more changes, and that’s not a productive use of my time. Issues like this always cause me to switch over to my XP machine and use good ol’ HTML-Kit instead.
Looks like a new version of SKEdit was just released at the top of the month that might help some of these issues. Meanwhile, the $80 price point for Coda is rather prohibitive, so I may have to contain my excitement.
On a related note, A List Apart is looking for participation in their new annual web design survey. See the starboard button for linkage.
todd April 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I’m trying to figure out whether the new Macromedia^W Adobe “Creative Suite” is worth the upgrade. I can’t see that it is. $500-$1500 for a bit of Ajax integration seems a bit outrageous to me.
John April 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I highly doubt that it is. If the version you’re using doesn’t have any showstopper bugs, I wouldn’t bother.
Me, I’d like to have a version of Illustrator that doesn’t crash all the time, but I’m not giving them any more money.
Kieran April 24th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I’ve used BBEdit on my Macs forever, but I always preferred HomeSite (which I used on my PCs at work). Now I used Dreamweaver @ work, but I think it’s a bit bloated & buggy. I’ve been wanting a good Mac editor for a long time now — something better than BBEdit, but not as unnecessarily complex as DW — and after using Coda tonight I think I’m sold, even at $80.
John April 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Wow, look at that. Score one for Coda.
I only used it for about five minutes last night, as I had a quick Safari-only float bug to stamp out, but seemed impressive at first glance. I doubt I’ll have the time to really put it through its paces over the demo period, but the first impression was good.
Eric April 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I downloaded the trial but haven’t used it. Also got a letter from Panic, letting me know that they’re not releasing review copies at this time (who would need to with the press they’ve been getting). So, I won’t have much time to evaluate the trial…
fractal April 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
You mean I’ve got this fancy new MacPro with CS3 and I still have to do all my html editing on my PC’s?!?! JK, I think Coda is the answer for me as well. Code hurts my brain so I’ll spend $80 to make it easy on me. Maybe I’ll fianlly get around to tackling DreamWeaver too.
I’ve got you bookmarked again…I should have checked in here to begin with!
John April 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
That’s the good thing about demo periods. It doesn’t hurt the wallet to give a test spin.
Personally, I have a bunch of updates to do this weekend for the Working Waterfront Festival, so I think I’ll try to do them via Coda and see how that goes.
(God, that site feels so old. It uses SSI, for cripes sake. I stopped using that years ago.) :/