Has it Been Only a Month? May 30, 2007

Panic’s Steven Frank has posted a reflection on Coda’s first month (seriously, it seems longer to me). Primarily, he ruminates on the three distinct categories of people who have shown interest in Coda*:
A lot of people have been writing us to say that it has changed the way they make web sites, and that [...]

3.8 out of 5 Ain’t Bad May 28, 2007

Eric Barstad of HTML Editor Reviews has posted a review of Coda. Sentiments run pretty much along the same lines as other folks, but he calls out a gripe that I also had:
When I column select text, the selected column isn’t highlighted; rather, the entire lines are highlighted, which can be quite confusing (this might [...]

Coda, A Few Weeks Later May 25, 2007

Brian Warren posted his own impressions of Coda afterusing it pretty heavily for a while. He notes:
“Coda’s power lies in its apparent simplicity. Because Coda is an all-in-one application, I never have to switch applications when moving from editing an XHTML file, to tweaking a CSS file, previewing in the browser and then uploading [...]

Panic Releases Coda 1.0.2 May 19, 2007

Woohoo! Let’s cut to the chase:
Coda 1.0.2 adds a number of improvements, including:

Much-requested editor features, including “Close Current Tag”, “Balance”, and “Remove Line Breaks”
The ability to quickly publish arbitrary files to a site, uploading them to the right place
Automatic <img> tags when dragging images from the sidebar into an editor
Copying and pasting of CSS styles [...]

“Cool app. Too bad I can’t use it.” May 16, 2007

Constructive Nonconformist ruminates that Coda’s paradigm of working on one local copy to one live site may be good for some, but not for everyone:
When I build a website it’s generally for a client. In addition to development and production, I need a third server: a ‘user acceptance testing’ web server. Sometimes I need a [...]

Why Coda Really Needs Better Contextual Syntax Coloring May 9, 2007

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SurfBits Coda Review May 7, 2007

SurfBits has posted their own review of Coda today. It’s pretty straightforward, but does raise an interesting issue:
I like the method [in transfers] where you can see both sides at the same time, having to have blind faith that it will switch properly is kind of disconcerting, but it does work pretty easily when you [...]

Printing Compared May 6, 2007

The blog Brnzwngs has a short piece comparing the printing features of Coda, BBEdit and Dreamweaver. Coda and BBEdit are pretty much on par, but Dreamweaver (not suprisingly) falls a bit short.

Gruber’s Take May 4, 2007

The always spot-on Jon Gruber at Daring Fireball has well-reasoned ruminations on Coda:
The appeal of Coda cannot be expressed solely by any comparison of features. The point is not what it does, but how it feels to use it. The essential aspects of Coda aren’t features in its components, but rather the connections between components.

Coda: Minding the Gaps May 3, 2007

Upstart Blogger posits that Coda “is a great all-in-one Web development environment, but it’s missing some of the power and refinement of dedicated applications.”
That’s certainly true, and they go on to list a number of free (or cheap) solutions and tricks that fill in some of Coda’s more deficient areas, such as CSS validation and [...]