Comments on: Coda Video Review

By: Michael Noga

Michael Noga — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:50:57 +0000

Derek Fons. Coda is not a WYSIWYG, thank god. It does give you a live “Preview” but you can not make and edits to your source files in that view.

Coda if in my opinion fantastic, I use Coda for all my PHP dev work and Textmate for all my Ruby on Rails dev. I do my RoR deployments from SVN so Textmate works great since Coda doesn ot have SVN integration (yet?).

By: Derek Fons

Derek Fons — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:50:17 +0000

I like the concept just because I used to live in Dreamweaver.

For the last year I been using TextMate with Transmit and nothing else compares.

Coda text editor can’t touch the power of what you can do it TextMate.

It is just what works for me. I do think Coda is great for people that need a wysiwyg though.

By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:55:50 +0000

Marc Edwards: Dreamweaver is a bloated WYSIWYG editor. Coda is great, and the price is legitimate, but I still am hesitant to pay that much for an editor that does FTP. As Macworld says, I too think Coda needs improvement, especially in the CSS area.

By: Caitlyn Imburgo

Caitlyn Imburgo — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:05:25 +0000

Very nice video review, Kiro. I love Coda. It’s so simple.

By: Jack Cory

Jack Cory — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:50:41 +0000

i’ve css edit, didn’t like it.

By: Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:35:40 +0000

Arjun Muralidharan: Hefty price? Dreamweaver is USD$399…

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:35:33 +0000

Macworld review :

http://www.macworld.com/2007/07/reviews/coda102/index.php/

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Macworldâ€™s buying advice
After testing, it became clear to me that Coda 1.0.3 is a work in progress. Panic says that it is going to be updating Coda based on user feedback, and the application will need a lot of updating to be able to hold its own against mature applications. If you donâ€™t own any Web development programs yet and are looking to start hand-coding Web sites, Coda is a good first step. Otherwise, wait for subsequent versions before tossing out programs like BBEdit () and TextMate.

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By: Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:32:38 +0000

Coda + CSSEdit here. That combo can’t be beaten IMO.

Jack Cory: I thought the same as you until trying CSSEdit. Sure, you can do everything by hand, but being able to group and drag everything around the way CSSEdit can is well worth the money (not to mention the brilliant “suck the CSS out of this web page and let me edit on the fly” feature).

“Coda has some features none of the competition has including live editing”
As much as I love Coda (LOTS!), there’s no way it was the first, or is the only editor to have live WebKit preview. HyperEdit and many others have had this for quite some time.

By: Jack Cory

Jack Cory — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:26:28 +0000

i can’t stand GUI’s when it comes to coding, i love doing everything by hand. I still use coda, but i just do the CSS by hand

By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:27:12 +0000

Coda is a great application, but I just can’t afford it’s rather hefty price tag. I’m only a small-time freelance developer, but find coda’s advanced features very useful.

I would’ve appreciated a better CSS tool though, that let’s you change CSS properties live on the web page (there’s a firefox plugin that does this…).